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  1. Book Review

    In this remarkable novel, the entire world of a 5-year old boy is the 11-by-11-foot room in which his mother is being held against her will. Emma Donoghue's child narrator is one of the most ...

  2. ROOM

    ROOM. Wrenching, as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching and at times unexpectedly funny. Talented, versatile Donoghue ( The Sealed Letter, 2008, etc.) relates a searing tale of survival and recovery, in the voice of a five-year-old boy. Jack has never known a life beyond Room. His Ma gave birth to him on Rug; the stains ...

  3. Summary and Reviews of Room by Emma Donoghue

    Book Summary. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world.... Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives ...

  4. Room by Emma Donoghue

    Book Summary: Room by Emma Donoghue. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world…. Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room by Emma Donoghue is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. ... In addition to book reviews and author interviews, we also ...

  5. Room: Emma Donoghue's Intense Psychological Thriller

    Room is a contemporary psychological thriller by Emma Donoghue. The book was published in 2010 and follows the story of Ma, a woman whose been held captive for 7 years and has since had a son, Jack. Readers may want to know more by the end of the novel. Jack's narration means questions go unanswered.

  6. All Book Marks reviews for Room by Emma Donoghue

    Emma Donoghue. If Room remained purely claustrophobic throughout, Ms. Donoghue and her reader might tire of Jack's version of events, not to mention Jack's bubbly cheer. So it's fortunate that this novel has the dramatic turning point that it needs. Eventually the spell is broken: Jack and Ma are freed.

  7. Book Marks reviews of Room by Emma Donoghue

    Rave Janet Maslin, The New York Times. If Room remained purely claustrophobic throughout, Ms. Donoghue and her reader might tire of Jack's version of events, not to mention Jack's bubbly cheer. So it's fortunate that this novel has the dramatic turning point that it needs. Eventually the spell is broken: Jack and Ma are freed.

  8. Room by Emma Donoghue: review

    Maybe that's going too far, but as a life-affirming fable of parent-child love, and an antidote to the prurience of so much crime fiction, it's a triumph, and deserves to be a hit. Room. by ...

  9. Room (novel)

    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. [1] Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case. [2]The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize [3] and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize ...

  10. Room: the unputdownable bestseller that inspired the Oscar-winning film

    Room, was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson.

  11. Book review: 'Room' by Emma Donoghue

    Sept. 29, 2010 12 AM PT. Los Angeles Times Book Critic. The more you know about Emma Donoghue's ninth novel, "Room," the harder it is to assess. That's a tricky issue, since "Room" is ...

  12. Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Room: A Novel

    The cover of ROOM was quite interesting and in the end it was the childishly written word-title "ROOM" that made me read a summary of the book and decide to finally read it. I read the book in a few days, but there were a few things that caused some ambiguity about the story of Jack and Ma in the 11' x 11' room as their home for seven years.

  13. Revisiting Emma Donoghue's 'Room'

    Megan O'Grady reviews Emma Donoghue's latest novel, "Akin," in this week's issue.In 2010, Aimee Bender wrote for the Book Review about "Room," Donoghue's novel about a 5-year-old ...

  14. Book Review: Room by Emma Donoghue

    Book Review: Room by Emma Donoghue If you're going to read one book this year, make it Emma Donoghue's Room.Unlike any novel you've ever read, Room is an enthralling experience, told from the perspective of five-year old Jack. Slowly and deliberately, the reader is made aware of the nightmarish world in which Jack and his Ma live.

  15. Amazon.com: Room: A Novel: 9780316268356: Donoghue, Emma: Books

    Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is a writer of contemporary and historical fiction whose novels include the international bestseller "Room" (her screen adaptation was nominated for four Oscars), "Frog Music", "Slammerkin," "The Sealed Letter," "Landing," "Life Mask," "Hood," and "Stirfry." Her story collections are "Astray", "The Woman ...

  16. Amazon.com: Room: A Novel: 9780316098335: Donoghue, Emma: Books

    Room: A Novel. Hardcover - Deckle Edge, September 13, 2010. by Emma Donoghue (Author) 4.3 31,624 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play.

  17. Room by Emma Donoghue

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  18. Book Review: The Room

    Posted December 22, 2015. I just completed reading the 2013 book, Room, by Emma Donoghue. For anyone who hasn't read the book or seen the movie, it is written from the perspective of a five-year ...

  19. Room Movie Review

    Parents need to know that Room is based on an intense, disturbing, award-winning novel by Emma Donoghue that focuses on a precocious 5-year-old boy named Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who lives in an unthinkable situation with his mother, Ma (Brie Larson): They're both trapped in a kidnapper's shed, and Jack was born in captivity.The movie features a great deal of suggested violence (particularly ...

  20. A Review of The Book Room by Emma Donoghue

    Published: Nov 22, 2021. Emma Donoghue's mesmerizing novel 'Room' is a captivating and inventive story about sexual assault and motherhood. The book is built on young 5 year old boy named Jack, where he is held captive in a small room with his mother. In the beginning of the book we notice that 'Room' is like a small jail cell.

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  22. Room: A Novel Audio CD

    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."― ... Book reviews & recommendations : IMDb Movies, TV & Celebrities: IMDbPro Get Info Entertainment Professionals Need: Kindle Direct Publishing Indie Digital & Print Publishing Made ...

  23. ROOM TO DREAM

    Google Rating. A successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. Young Fern Arable pleads for the life of runt piglet Wilbur and gets her father to sell him to a neighbor, Mr. Zuckerman.

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