Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Adult Stacks
Room : a novel
Call Numbers
- FICTION DONO TEEN (CEN)
- FICTION DONO (OSH)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
Physical Description
ix, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
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.