Room Author Emma Donoghue on the Appeal of Putting Good Kids in Bad Situations

The success of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel Room - about a mother and child living in horrific captivity - turned the Irish-Canadian novelist into a star, one who’s burning even brighter following last year’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of that book. The new book spins the strange tale of an 11-year-ol...

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Published in:New York (1968) 2016-08
Main Author: Epstein, Ian
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Children & youth
Novels
Perception
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Summary:The success of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel Room - about a mother and child living in horrific captivity - turned the Irish-Canadian novelist into a star, one who’s burning even brighter following last year’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of that book. The new book spins the strange tale of an 11-year-old Catholic girl, Anna O’Donnell, living in a small Irish town in the 1850s who becomes a media sensation when she refuses to eat, claiming she’s surviving...
ISSN:0028-7369