About The Book
Jack is five, and excited about his birthday. He lives his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and Measures eleven feet by eleven feet. He loves watching TV, and the Cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real-only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's, a World outside...
Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a Mother and son whose Love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a Novel like no other.
Contents
1. Presents
2. Unlying
3. Dying
4. After
5. Living
Review
'One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time' - John Boyne, Author of the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
'Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. Unlike anything I've ever read before' - Anita Shreve, Author of a Change in Altitude and Testimony
'Potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory' - Michael Cunningham, Author of the Hours and Specimen Days
'Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up : the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' - Audrey Ntffenegger, Author of the Time Traveler’s Wife
'Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack - and Ma, of course, but mainly Jack - moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important' - John Boyne
'I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before' - Anita Shreve
'Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can't compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it's potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory - Michael Cunningham