ROOM
Author: Donoghue, Emma

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Little, Brown
Pages: 336
Price ( Hardback ): $24.99
Publication Date: September 13, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-0-316-09833-5
Category: Fiction

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Talented, versatile Donoghue (The Sealed Letter, 2008, etc.) relates a searing tale of survival and recovery, in the voice of a five-year-old boy.

Jack has never known a life beyond Room. His Ma gave birth to him on Rug; the ...

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