Room
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
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Five-year-old Jack has spent his life in a single locked shed with his Ma, who was kidnapped seven years ago. As his birthday passes, Ma decides Jack is finally old enough to learn there is an Outside.
The most commonly searched is Room by Emma Donoghue (2010), about a 5-year-old boy and his mother held captive in a single room. The metadata above lists Virginia Woolf, who wrote A Room of One's Own, a different work.
Yes. Lenny Abrahamson directed a 2015 film adaptation starring Brie Larson, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Emma Donoghue wrote the screenplay. The film is widely considered a faithful and emotionally devastating adaptation.
Room is 180 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Room takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
Room is a standalone novel by Virginia Woolf, not part of a series.
Room is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
