Product Description
Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Format: Paperback
Told from the perspective of five-year-old Jack, Emma Donoghue’s Room, is a devastating portrait of a boundless maternal love. A major film starring Brie Larson.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
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, 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 story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible .
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
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