01416cam a2200313 4500 275627190 TxAuBib 20120616120000.0 100304s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010006983 9780316098335 hc. $24.95 0316098337 hc. $24.95 9780316125086 pbk. : international ed. 0316125083 pbk. : international ed. TxAuBib Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. ix, 321 p. ; 25 cm. 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. 20120616. Boys Fiction. Mother and child Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Psychopaths Fiction. Escapes Fiction.