The Mars room : a novel / Rachel Kushner.
Material type:
TextPublisher: London : Vintage, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Description: 340 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780099589969
- 813 KUS 23
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 KUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100638387 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.
Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.
Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside- the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.
As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.
'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers' STYLIST
'More knowing about prison life than Orange Is The New Black ... so powerful' NEW YORK TIMES
'Breathtaking' VOGUE
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her second novel, The Flamethrowers, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, and Grand Street. She made the Bestseller List in 2018 with her title, The Mars Room.(Bowker Author Biography)