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**** Room: A Novel Hardcover - 2010

by Emma Donoghue

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Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, "Room" is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.

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Little, Brown and Company, September 2010. Hardcover . 2020&FreeVIB/Good. GOOD CONDITION: Book may have creases on spine. May have discreet tape and/or bent corners on cover or pages. Moderate edge/shelf wear. EX-LIBRARY COPY: Former classroom or public library copy. May contain stickers and/or stamps inside and on fore-edges. May be covered in contact paper or plastic jacket cover. FOUR-STAR BOOKSELLER FAVORITE **** I just finished watching Room. It was a mostly accurate adaptation. There were tears. It solidified my opinion about the book and people’s complaints that the author neglected to tell the mother’s story, failed to show her trauma. Yes, it is her story, but in the true spirit of Ma’s character, it’s not about her. It’s about Jack. He is her world. He is everything good in her life. Yes, she is broken, but she does her best not to fall apart until Jack is safe and someone other than him is there to pick up the pieces. We see all of this through Jack’s eyes and his limited understanding of the world. I believe that the author handled it delicately, honestly, and beautifully. Telling the story through Ma’s eyes would have been so much different, so much pain. I am not sure that I could have handled it. Jack’s narration sets the tone as not one completely devoid of hope and wonder. I loved it. SAVE ON SHIPPING: Additional books ship for $1.00 each Between the Covers!
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  • Title **** Room: A Novel
  • Author Emma Donoghue
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Condition Used - 2020&FreeVIB
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown and Company, New York
  • Date September 2010
  • Features Deckle Edges, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 92104
  • ISBN 9780316098335 / 0316098337
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm)
  • Reading level 730
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Boys, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010006983
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First Edition Identification

Room was first published on August 6th, 2010 Picador in the UK. The first UK edition has a blue dustjacket with black border and a fuzzy replication of a small house and child on the front. There is also a signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies released by Picador. 


The first American edition was published in October 2010 by Little Brown and Company, New York, and the first Canadian edition by Harper Collins, Toronto. These have a  white dust jacket with 'ROOM' spelled across it in different colors.



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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2010, Page 29
  • Christian Century, 12/14/2010, Page 25
  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/17/2010, Page 143
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2010, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 08/01/2010, Page 67
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/15/2010, Page 60
  • LJ Top 10 Book, 11/01/2010, Page 1
  • New York Times Book Review, 09/19/2010, Page 1
  • New Yorker (The), 10/11/2010, Page 104
  • Newsweek, 09/20/2010, Page 67
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/05/2010, Page 29
  • People Weekly, 09/20/2010, Page 63
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/12/2010, Page 0
  • Quill & Quire, 10/01/2010, Page 24
  • Quill & Quire Books of the Yr, 12/01/2010, Page 24

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PhD in eighteenth-century literature before moving to London, Ontario, where she lives with her partner and their two children. She also migrates between genres, writing literary history, biography, stage and radio plays as well as fairy tales and short stories.

She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (Frog Music, Slammerkin, Life Mask, Landing, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes.

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