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Room
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2010
- Run Time
- 10 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
A major film starring Brie Larson.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators.
Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.
Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .
Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible . . .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Critics Review
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Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.
Audrey Niffenegger
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Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important . . . Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience.
John Boyne
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I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before.
Anita Shreve
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Details
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 10 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2010
- ISBN
- 9780230755161
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Violence and abuse in society
Synopsis
A major film starring Brie Larson.Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a story of boundless maternal love. Read by a full cast of narrators.Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real – only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there’s a world outside . . .Told in Jack’s voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible . . .Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
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