The Mars Room

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018A 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

Report

It is an unforgettable novel, and leaves the reader in no doubt that Kushner is one of America's greatest living authors. Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Kushner, Kushner Rachel
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780099589969
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958996-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage; 191 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); San Francisco, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, California, Narrative theme: Social issues, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary