{"product_id":"the-mars-room-9781476756585","title":"The Mars Room","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR - \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and \u003c\/b\u003et\u003cb\u003ehe NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e earned tweets from Margaret Atwood--\"gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled\"--and from Stephen King--\"\u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, 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: 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stunning and unsentimental, \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e is \"wholly authentic...profound...luminous\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \"one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003ecover review)--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 \"affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Kushner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476756585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e195660 \/ Mars Room\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Kushner is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, her latest novel; \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Crowd, \u003c\/i\u003eher acclaimed essay collection; and the internationally bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room, The Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTelex from Cuba\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a book of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Rachel K. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Folio Prize, and was twice a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award in Fiction. \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake \u003c\/i\u003ewas also longlisted for the National Book Award. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rachel Kushner \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47283683590301,"sku":"9781476756585","price":35.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_070882d5-7df7-442f-99bb-666ce3596f3a.jpg?v=1759970778","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-mars-room-9781476756585","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}