The Mars room : a novel
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner, 2018.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Fiction - Adult Books
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Published
New York, NY : Scribner, 2018.
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6, 15 Points
Level 6, 15 Points
Notes
Citation/References
Booklist,,March 15, 2018
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Publishers Weekly,,February 05, 2018
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Library Journal,,April 01, 2018
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Kirkus Reviews,,March 01, 2018
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California'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 Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined."--,Provided by publisher.
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