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The Mars room : a novel / Rachel Kushner

By:

Kushner, Rachel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Scribner , 2018Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: 338 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781476756554

Subject(s):

Women prisioners -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

FIC KUS

LOC classification:

PS3611.U7386 M37 2018

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC KUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		031764

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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.