Today I'm five.
An edition of Room
(2010)
Room
a novel
1st large print ed.
by Emma Donoghue
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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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family life, sexual assault, rape, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2011-05-21, New York Times bestseller, Boys, Kidnapping, Escapes, Psychopaths, Mother and child, Fiction, Mother-child relationship, Authors, Canadian (English), Mother and child - Fiction, Englisch, Roman, Boys - Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mother and child, fiction, Psychological fiction, New York Times reviewed, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2011-02-13, Suspense fiction, Madre e hijo, Secuestro, Evasiones, Psicópatas, Muchachos, Ficción, Gefangenschaft, Mutter, Lebensbewaltigung, Entfuhrung, Flucht, Junge, Junge <5 Jahre>, literary fictionPlaces
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Room: A Novel
2010-09, Little, Brown and Company
Paperback
in English
- First Edition (1)
0316125083 9780316125086
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Room: a novel
2010, HarperCollins Publishers
Hardcover
in English
- 1st Canadian ed. (4)
1554688310 9781554688319
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Accelerated Reader UG 4.1 13 13 143569
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Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.
The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.
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