The Mars Room
Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex.
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| ISBN |
9781910702680 |
| Barcode |
9781910702680 |
| Published |
18 June 2018 by Vintage |
| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback |
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| Author(s) |
By Kushner, Rachel |
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| ISBN-13 |
9781910702680 |
| ISBN-10 |
1910702684 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
In stock at publisher; ships 7-15 working days |
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| Publisher |
Vintage |
| Imprint |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Publication Date |
18 June 2018
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| International Publication Date |
7 June 2018 |
| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback
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| Author(s) |
By Kushner, Rachel |
| Category |
Award Winning
Modern Fiction
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| Number of Pages |
352 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 153mm
Height: 234mm
Spine: 25mm |
| Weight |
428g |
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Description of this Book
Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy's estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The relentlessly deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line - until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex.
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| Awards |
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2018 (UK)
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| NZ Review |
It's her best book yet, another big step forward. * Jonathan Franzen * |
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Author's Bio
Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Her follow-up novel, The Flamethrowers, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.
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