The Mars Room: MINT SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION

Rachel Kushner

ISBN 10: 1910702676 / ISBN 13: 9781910702673

Published by Jonathan Cape, 2018

About this Item

A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. Unread gift condition, SIGNED and Publication Day DATED June 7th 2018 by Rachel Kushner to the title page. An outstanding copy of this elusive {UK first} Booker short-listed title. BOXED DESPATCH.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1539784859087

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mars Room: MINT SIGNED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910702676
• ISBN 13: 9781910702673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy’s estranged mother.

Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes.

Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line – until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy – and through a cast of astonishing characters populating The Mars Room – Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex.

About the Author

Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Her follow-up novel, The Flamethrowers, was also a finalist for the National Book Award and received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.