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Room

A Novel

Room( 3 customer ratings | )
Author: Donoghue, Emma
ISBN:978-0-316-09833-5
Publication Date:Sep 2010
Publisher:Little Brown & Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $38.00
Book Description:

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Psychological
Fiction / Family Life / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9.25 x 0.875 Inches
Book Weight:1.23 Pounds
Author Biography
Donoghue, Emma (Author)
Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA degree from the University College Dublin and PhD in English from University of Cambridge. Her first novel was Stir. Her next novel was Hood which won the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. Her novel Slammerkin was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Sealed Letter, published in 2008, is a work of historical fiction. This work was the joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She continued writing several award winning novels including Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in September 2010. Some of her other works include Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, and Frog Music.

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