Room

a novel

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Livre relié, 321 pages

Langue : English

Publié 2 janvier 2010 par HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN :
978-1-55468-831-9
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Numéro OCLC :
637438920

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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

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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.

Sujets

  • Boys
  • Fiction
  • Mother and child
  • Kidnapping
  • Psychopaths
  • Escapes
  • Garçons
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Mère et enfant
  • Psychopathes
  • Évasions