Room (Paperback)

Emma Donoghue`s ROOM may have a torn-from-the-headlines plot, but it`s rendered with such finesse and perception that it quickly surpasses its tawdry origins to become a great work of literature. Borrowing heavily from the long-term forced imprisonments of Elisabeth Fritzl in Austria and Jaycee Lee Dugard in California, ROOM tells the story of a woman kidnapped and locked in a twelve-by-twelve room where she is repeatedly raped by her captor. The narrator of the story is Jack, her five-year-old boy born in captivity, and his distorted view of reality--a place where the nightly news on the television and the fairy tales told to him by his mother are equally plausible and implausible--is both surreal and utterly compelling. Jack`s horrible yet, at times, wonderfully sweet life becomes forever altered in the second half of the book, "Outside," where Jack and his mother grapple with the media circus and million indignities of the outside world. A powerful, exquisitely rendered book, ROOM demonstrates the light that a great writer like Donoghue can shine on a strange and sordid subject, revealing its profound and hidden human meaning.

Author:

Donoghue, Emma

ISBN:

9780316098328

Format:

Paperback

Pages:

321

Publish Date:

05/18/2011

Publisher:

Back Bay Books

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