The Mars Room: A Novel
(Libby/OverDrive eAudiobook)
Author
Contributors
Kushner, Rachel Author, Narrator
Published
Simon & Schuster Audio , 2018.
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Available from Libby/OverDrive
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TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room 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—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.”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. As James Wood said in The New Yorker, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive.”
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eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
05/01/2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781508244387
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Introducing characters who are serving lengthy prison sentences (an innocent African American man in An American Marriage, a white single mother guilty of murder in The Mars Room), these moving, character-driven stories illuminate the impact of incarceration on family relationships. -- NoveList Contributor
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kushner, R. (2018). The Mars Room: A Novel (Unabridged). Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kushner, Rachel. 2018. The Mars Room: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room: A Novel Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Kushner, R. (2018). The mars room: a novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room: A Novel Unabridged, Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
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