7/4/2023 0 Comments Emma donoghue 2010 novelThe Room itself is a character of its own in the novel - it's capitalized, as is everything it contains - Lamp, Toothpaste, Table. His discovery that they are prisoners shatters his worldview. All that Jack reads in books and all he sees on TV he thinks is pure fiction. In fact, Old Nick is their captor - he kidnapped Jack's mother when she was 19. Jack thinks that he and his mother are the only two real humans, and Old Nick - the man who visits every couple of nights - is perhaps borderline human. "He's spent five years thinking that he's in this world with his mother, and that outside there's outer space with stars and planets zooming around." "What Jack discovers early on - which is a complete shock to him - is that Room is not all there is," Donoghue tells NPR's Melissa Block. The setting is an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother - and when the book begins, it is the only world he has ever known. The captivating novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue is matter-of-factly narrated by a 5-year-old named Jack. It isn't easy to talk about Room without giving too much away. Her latest novel, Room, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Irish playwright and novelist Emma Donoghue is also the author of the novels The Sealed Letter, Stir Fry, Hood and Slammerkin.
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