The Mars Room

Author: Rachel Kushner

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780099589969
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : April 2019
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  • : April 2019
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  • : Rachel Kushner
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  • : English
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Staff notes: Told mostly from the inside of a women's prison in Caifornia, The Mars Room is about the people who slip through the cracks of the justice system. Kushner's writing is utterly compelling; her prose pushes you through the book with a sense of urgency, of breathlessness. One of the best contemporary American writers I have read. — Charlotte

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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