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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses

Emma Donoghue's Novel Room

Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses( )
Created by: Herbert, Marilyn
Assisted by: Cannon, Allison
Based on a novel by: Donoghue, Emma
Series title:Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Ser.
ISBN:978-1-897082-90-4
Publication Date:Sep 2011
Publisher:Bookclub-in-a-Box
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

Five-year-old Jack and his Ma live in Room, an eleven-foot-square shed in the backyard of their abductor and captor, Old Nick. Ma came to Room from outside, but Jack was born into it and has never known anything else. Despite their confinement, Ma creates an extraordinary situation for her son, filled with learning, creative activities, and fantastic stories like Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. But Jack is growing and Ma knows they must somehow escape. The challenge is how to...
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Book Details
Pages:89
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.045 x 8.97 x 0.098 Inches
Book Weight:0.44 Pounds
Author Biography
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Emma Donoghue was born on October 24, 1969 in Dublin, Ireland. She received her BA degree from the University College Dublin and PhD in English from University of Cambridge. Her first novel was Stir. Her next novel was Hood which won the 1997 American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Book Award for Literature. Her novel Slammerkin was a finalist in the 2001 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction. The Sealed Letter, published in 2008, is a work of historical fiction. This work was the joint winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. She continued writing several award winning novels including Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in September 2010. Some of her other works include Astray, Three and a Half Deaths, and Frog Music.

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