The Mars Room: A Novel

The Mars Room: A Novel

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

An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwoodâ€”â€œgritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulledâ€â€”and from Stephen Kingâ€”â€œThe Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.â€

Itâ€™s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, 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: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. 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, portrayed with great humor and precision.

Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is â€œwholly authenticâ€¦profoundâ€¦luminousâ€ (The Wall Street Journal), â€œone of those books that enrage you even as they break your heartâ€ (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)â€”a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and â€œaffirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelistsâ€ (Entertainment Weekly).
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781476756585
ReleaseDate 2019-05-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476756585

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781476756585
ReleaseDate	2019-05-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476756585

The Mars Room: A Novel

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