Room by Emma Donoghue

Room by Emma Donoghue

Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s Room, is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love. A major film starring Brie Larson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. 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.

Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessRoom 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
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
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

Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter and The Wonder) to the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.

SKU	GOR012295577
ISBN 13	9781529077247
ISBN 10	1529077249
Titre	Room
Auteur	Emma Donoghue
Série	Picador Collection
État	Très bon
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Pan Macmillan
Année de publication	2022-02-17
Nombre de pages	432
Prix	Winner of National Book Awards Paperback of the Year 2011 (UK), Winner of Commonwealth Foundation Writer's Prize for Best Book 2011 (UK), Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK), Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 (UK)
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