The Mars Room: A Novel

The Mars Room: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ TIMEâ€™S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR â€¢ NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018

FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

â€œGritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled.â€ â€”Margaret Atwood via Twitter

â€œA page turnerâ€¦one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart.â€ â€”The New York Times Book Review (cover review)

â€œBrilliant and devastatingâ€¦a heartbreaking, true, and nearly flawless novel.â€ â€”NPR

â€œWith her richly textured third novel, Kushner certifies her place as one of the great American novelists of the twenty-first century.â€ â€”Entertainment Weekly

From twice National Book Awardâ€“nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called â€œthe best, most brazen, most interesting book of the yearâ€ (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America.

Itâ€™s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Womenâ€™s Correctional Facility, deep in Californiaâ€™s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision.

Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushnerâ€™s work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in The New Yorker, her fiction â€œsucceeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive.â€
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781476756554
ReleaseDate 2018-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476756554

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781476756554
ReleaseDate	2018-05-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476756554

The Mars Room: A Novel

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