Room

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mass market paperback, 417 pages

Langue : English

Publié 30 avril 2012 par HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins.

ISBN :
978-1-4434-1369-5
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Numéro OCLC :
795007231

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TO FIVE-YEAR-OLD JACK, ROOM IS THE WORLD. It's where he was born. It's where he and Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. But to Ma, Room is the prison where she's been kept since she was nineteen—for seven long years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But these walls can't hold them forever ..

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a publié une critique de Room (a novel) par Emma Donoghue

Uncomfortable read

Five-year-old Jack and Ma, live happily together in Room, or so Jack thinks.

I hesitate to say I like this book, but I found it believable as a story told from the perspective of a child. I’m not sure that I could have stomached this written from Ma’s POV. The POV chosen allows the horrors visited upon Ma and Jack to unfurl obliquely throughout. Though Jack is the protagonist, it was Ma who occupied my thoughts. I can’t help but think about all the real Ma’s out there. This, for me, is true horror. The stuff that can and does happen, not the things that go bump in the night.