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Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. 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 but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.
Record details
- ISBN: 0316098329
- ISBN: 9780316098328
- ISBN: 9780316196949 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0316196940 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 321, 10 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Back Bay paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: 2010. Includes: Reading group guide (10 p., second sequence) |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Presents -- Unlying -- Dying -- After -- Living. |
| Target Audience Note: | HL730L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader UG 4.1 13 13 143569 |
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| Subject: | Escapes > Fiction. Psychopaths > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. Mother and child > Fiction. Boys > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cambria County Library | FICTION Don (Text) | 85131001721399 | CACM Fiction | Available | - |
