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Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

By: Donoghue, Emma, 1969-.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010Description: ix, 321 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0316125083 (pbk.); 9780316125086 (pbk.).Subject(s): Boys -- Fiction | Mother and child -- Fiction | Kidnapping -- Fiction | Psychopaths -- Fiction | Escapes -- FictionDDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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Main Collection Taylor's Library-TC

Floor 4, Shelf 40 , Side 2, TierNo 5, BayNo 2

823.914 DON 2010 (Browse shelf) 1 Available GENxx,GENxx,01,GR 5000110849
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.