Room

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Emma Donoghue: Room (2010, Little, Brown)

477 pages

English language

Published March 13, 2010 by Little, Brown.

ISBN:
978-0-316-12057-9
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OCLC Number:
548642188

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4 stars (2 reviews)

A five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.

Jack has spent his life in a small space his mother calls Room, and while Jack uses his imagination to create fantasies to entertain himself, his mother finds a way for them to escape. The plot contains disturbing scenes of violence and confinement.

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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