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Emma Donoghue The Room

Interesting Facts:

-Emma Donoghue is from Ireland.

-The Room was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize on September 7, 2010 it made the shortlist.

-Emma Donoghue lost the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 to Tea Obreht

"There’s a lot to manage — the external, vivid, social world is a huge and gratifying resource here, and Jack’s eyes remake the familiar. It is invigorating, watching him learn, and the way Donoghue reveals the consequences of Room through her attention to detail is tremendous."

                                                               Aimee Bender  The New York Times