UID:
kobvindex_ZLB35030973
ISBN:
9781447289241
Series Statement:
Picador Collection
Content:
" Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. 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 8211 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. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room by Emma Donoghue is a novel like no other. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. "
Content:
Biographisches: "Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently The Pull of the Stars ), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room , was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel The Wonder , starring Florence Pugh, coming from Netflix. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from July 12, 2010 At the start of Donoghue39" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from October 25, 2010 Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live and eat and play and sleep in one room—an 11215"
Language:
English
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Author information:
Boyne, John