Room: A NovelThe award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating — a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child. |
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... she's a dumbo. “Numbskull.” I give her her two kisses. I move my chair to Sink to wash up, with bowls I have to do ... she's sorry and she doesn't forget anymore but they're still rotted. I flat the chairs and put them beside Door against.
... she's a dumbo. “Numbskull.” I give her her two kisses. I move my chair to Sink to wash up, with bowls I have to do ... she's sorry and she doesn't forget anymore but they're still rotted. I flat the chairs and put them beside Door against.
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... she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jump into our other's head, like coloring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green. At 08:30 I press the button on TV and try between the three. I find Dora the Explorer, yippee. Ma ...
... she tells me what she's thinking, our each ideas jump into our other's head, like coloring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green. At 08:30 I press the button on TV and try between the three. I find Dora the Explorer, yippee. Ma ...
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... She always wears Backpack who's more inside than out, with everything Dora needs like ladders and space suits, for her dancing and playing soccer and flute and having adventures with Boots her best friend monkey. Dora always says she's ...
... She always wears Backpack who's more inside than out, with everything Dora needs like ladders and space suits, for her dancing and playing soccer and flute and having adventures with Boots her best friend monkey. Dora always says she's ...
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... she's finished, then we take them apart to see how fast she went. Today hers is nine seconds bigger than mine, that means I winned, so I jump up and down and blow raspberries. “Let's do a race at the same time.” “Sounds like fun, doesn ...
... she's finished, then we take them apart to see how fast she went. Today hers is nine seconds bigger than mine, that means I winned, so I jump up and down and blow raspberries. “Let's do a race at the same time.” “Sounds like fun, doesn ...
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... she's figured out that we don't need to ask for a measuring tape, we can make a ruler ourselves. We recycle the cereal box from Ancient Egyptian Pyramid, Ma shows me to cut a strip that's as big as her foot, that's why it's called a ...
... she's figured out that we don't need to ask for a measuring tape, we can make a ruler ourselves. We recycle the cereal box from Ancient Egyptian Pyramid, Ma shows me to cut a strip that's as big as her foot, that's why it's called a ...
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