ROOM, A Novel by Emma Donoghue (2010 1st Ed.)

Author: Emma Donoghue. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, ON., 2010, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with a piece of clear tape across the bottom of the spine, lovely deckle-edged pages and French fold-out covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 321 pages.

This the story of a five-year-old called Jack, who lives in a single room with his Ma and has never been outside. When he turns five, he starts to ask questions, and his mother reveals to him that there is a world beyond the walls. Told entirely in Jack’s voice, Room is no horror story or tearjerker, but a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child.

It won the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for best Canadian novel), the Commonwealth Prize (Canada & Carribbean Region), the Canadian Booksellers’ Association Libris Awards (Fiction Book and Author of the Year), the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, the W. H. Smith Paperback of the Year Award and the University of Canberra Book of the Year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, International Author of the Year (Galaxy National Book Awards), the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium English Book Award. The American Library Association gave it an Alex Award (for an adult book with special appeal to readers 12-18) and the Indie Choice Award for Adult Fiction. The Canadian Library Association named it as an Honour Book in their Canadian Young Adult Book Award. The four-voiced audiobook version won one of three Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards and an Earphones Award. 

DID YOU KNOW? ROOM, A Novel by Emma Donoghue was an international bestseller as soon as it was published in August 2010, Room has sold close to three million copies.  

 ISBN: 9781554688326  

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