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Sat Sep 15 2012 - 01:00. Since the success of her novel ‘Room’, Emma Donoghue can write whatever she wants and never what she’s told to. But things changed when she was asked to write a play ...
Mar 27, 2012 · This interview explores Emma Donoghue's writing process for her novel Room. It positions Room in relation to both Donoghue's career as a transnational writer, that is, as one who has moved from Ireland to the UK, and from the UK to Canada, and her feminist background. This interview concludes with a wider consideration of her novel's treatment ...
- Tom Ue
- 2012
- Two Actors, One Room
- Deciding What Stays and What Goes
- Writing Anywhere and Everywhere
- Let The Light in
"Although it has some technical challenges, in that you're locked in a room for the first half, I had a feeling that the actual storyline was one that could carry its own. Until now, none of my books have ever been filmed, so this one, I just had a feeling that the child's point of view and the story might carry it. "A Few Good Men is all set in a ...
"In a few cases, Lenny [Abrahamson] allowed me to un-make decisions I had made about the film at the outset. For instance, I had the sense that the long hair was going to be a problem because in the book Jack just occasionally mentions having long hair; it's no big deal. I thought in the film, it will be so visually striking if he's got long hair, ...
"I've never had an office away from my home and I'm not at all precious about the writing process. I don't have to have one special pen or anything. I can write on airplanes, on trains, in cafés. These days I've got a treadmill desk, so some of the later drafts would have been written on my treadmill desk. I hate exercise. The treadmill desk can so...
"Lenny said to me, 'For Ma, we need someone who can do comedy.' I said, 'Really? Comedy?' He said, 'Yeah, yeah. We need someone who is not sort of pre-determined tragic. We need somebody who might have been the girl next door and ordinary and have had a care-free life. She's ended up in this extraordinary situation, which has brought out these trag...
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Sep 27, 2010 · The captivating novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue is matter-of-factly narrated by a 5-year-old named Jack. The setting is an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother -- and when the ...
This study sheds light on Emma Donoghue's novel Room the novel is analyzed using the feminist theory.The study concentrates on the female main character who is imprisoned for seven years in a room ...
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It positions Room in relation to both Donoghue’s career as a transnational writer, that is, as one who has moved from Ireland to the UK, and from the UK to Canada, and her feminist background. This interview concludes with a wider consideration of her novel’s treatment of the relations between gender, narrative and the contemporary family.
