Room

a novel

Paperback, 402 pages

English language

Published March 13, 2015 by Picador.

ISBN:
978-1-5098-0315-6
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OCLC Number:
925301391

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Jack is five. He lives in a single, locked room with his Ma. Room by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation, and the desire for, and price of, freedom.

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Very difficult to read...

4 stars

The subject matter of this book makes it really very difficult to read, and while it covers it really quite well... It goes from, "This is weird, and I am pretty sure it is something along this line," to getting closer and closer to understanding the basics of what is going on, and it kind of takes the story in a way that it just does not feel like it had to basically not get better until "happily ever after"... Especially that it pretty much was a "happily ever after" ending to a story that would continue to play out in the two main characters lives for months or years quite easily... A little too "ended with a nice bow on it..." Not that you would have wanted it to end with much before when it did based on what the author had. Just it was too tied up at …

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Subjects

  • Boys
  • Mother and child
  • Fiction