Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Room


Amazon's Best of the Month, September 2010

In many ways, Jack is a typical 5-year-old. He likes to read books, watch TV, and play games with his Ma. But Jack is different in a big way--he has lived his entire life in a single room, sharing the tiny space with only his mother and an unnerving nighttime visitor known as Old Nick. For Jack, "Room" is the only world he knows, but for Ma, it is a prison in which she has tried to craft a normal life for her son. When their insular world suddenly expands beyond the confines of their four walls, the consequences are piercing and extraordinary. Despite it's profoundly disturbing premise, Emma Donoghue's "Room" is rife with moments of hope and beauty, and the dogged determination to live, even in the most desolate circumstances. A stunning and original novel of survival in captivity, readers who enter "Room" will leave staggered, as though, like Jack, they are seeing the world for the very first time.

Amazon review.

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