Hardcover, 321 pages
English language
Published Nov. 3, 2010 by Little, Brown and Co..
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world.
It's where he was born. It's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination--the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells, the imaginary world projected through the TV, the coziness of Wardrobe below Ma's clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night in case Old Nick comes.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held since she was nineteen--for seven years. Trhough her fierce love for her son, she has created a live for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jack's curiosity is building alongside her own desperattion--and she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Told in the poignant and funny voice of Jack, Room is a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the …
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world.
It's where he was born. It's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination--the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells, the imaginary world projected through the TV, the coziness of Wardrobe below Ma's clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night in case Old Nick comes.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held since she was nineteen--for seven years. Trhough her fierce love for her son, she has created a live for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jack's curiosity is building alongside her own desperattion--and she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.
Told in the poignant and funny voice of Jack, Room is a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child. It is a shocking, exhilarating, and riveting novel--but always deeply human and always moving.
Room is a place you will never forget. (front flap)
Disturbing, particularly because it is told through the eyes of a child and you only gradually get the real picture of what is going on, but uplifting too, because it tells of a mother's love and sacrifice and how remarkable the human spirit really is.
A very unique way of telling the story. I like it. This took me through several different emotions. From laughter and fondness to nearly holding my breath with suspense. I've never read anything like it. A good read.
At first I thought this was going to be a trial to read. How interesting can a five-year-old pov be sustained for a whole novel? But once the 'world was established', I was hooked. Room is at times gripping and terrifying. An intelligent imagining of a horrible series of events.
It took me a short while to get used to Jack's narrative style but once I was, I loved the story.
SpoilerI thought the best part of the book was while Jack and Ma were still in Room but I think that may be because Jack felt secure there. I think his insecurity and confusion made his telling the tale more difficult.
The way the author used Jack's voice to describe what the world appeared to be to him, an outsider, was fantastic. A great way to use the Sociological Eye, I thought.
I was reduced to tears several times - either for happy or sad or just by the powerful emotions the words pulled from me. I think part of it was that I'm a very emotional person but part of it was that I kept imagining my young son in Jack's place.
Room was a great, and at …
It took me a short while to get used to Jack's narrative style but once I was, I loved the story.
SpoilerI thought the best part of the book was while Jack and Ma were still in Room but I think that may be because Jack felt secure there. I think his insecurity and confusion made his telling the tale more difficult.
The way the author used Jack's voice to describe what the world appeared to be to him, an outsider, was fantastic. A great way to use the Sociological Eye, I thought.
I was reduced to tears several times - either for happy or sad or just by the powerful emotions the words pulled from me. I think part of it was that I'm a very emotional person but part of it was that I kept imagining my young son in Jack's place.
Room was a great, and at times difficult, read. I highly recommend it.
