| Description |
vii, 321 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Jack is five and excited about his birthday. He lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures eleven feet by eleven feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real -- only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ... Told in Jack's voice, ROOM is the unsentimental and sometimes funny story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible |
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This is the story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways -- loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions -- his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and tiny Mouse (though Ma isn't a fan and throws a book at Mouse when she sees him). There's TV too, of course -- and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends -- but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night -- like a bat -- when Jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in Wardrobe. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked...Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother's love for her son, and of a young boy's innocence. Unsentimental yet affecting, devastating yet uplifting, it promises to be the most talked about novel of 2010 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
One Balmain copy puchased with money donated by Friends of Balmain Library |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Canada and the Caribbean region, 2011 |
| Subject |
Boys -- Fiction.
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Imprisonment -- Fiction.
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Isolation -- Fiction
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Mother and child -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2010533858 |
| ISBN |
0316098337 |
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0330519018 |
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0330519921 |
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1447202813 |
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9780316098335 |
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9780330519014 |
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9780330519922 |
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9781447202813 |
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