The Mars Room [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Kushner, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 1910702676 ISBN 13: 9781910702673

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 2018

Riassunto

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**

'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.' NEW YORK TIMES
'One of America's finest writers.' VOGUE

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.

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

"One of the greatest novels I have read in years. Her prior novel, The Flamethrowers, was expansive and thrilling, but this is richer and deeper, more ambitious in its moral vision... an exhilarating, always surprising read." (Irish Times)

"When I finished reading The Mars Room, I immediately reread it because I didn’t want to leave its world... The Mars Room teems with quick and distinctive voices." (Max Liu Financial Times)

"Cements [Kushner's] status as one of America's finest writers." (Vogue, **Must-Read Books of 2018**)

"I’ve been bowled over by Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room [about life in a women’s prison]. It’s astounding – very difficult to read but so beautifully done, and with such knowledge, although it doesn’t feel like a “researched” book." (Anne Tyler Observer)

"If you haven’t heard of Rachel Kushner yet, you soon will. The American novelist has earned comparisons to Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Franzen... [The Mars Room] makes for a compelling read. Imagine a darker version of "Orange Is The New Black"." (Sunday Times Style)

"[A] grainy and persuasive novel... This is a brooding book, one that dwells on Dostoyevskian notions of innocence and evil. It moves like a muscle car, oozing down the side roads of your mind." (Dwight Garner New York Times **Critics' Top Books of 2018**)

"Kushner, a two-time National Book Award finalist, slowly and deliciously unfolds the tapestry of Romy’s backstory – infusing mystery and humor in unlikely places – while interrogating the harsh realities of the U.S. prison system." (Lucy Feldman Time Magazine **The Best of Culture 2018**)

"Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room shows what happens when a smart writer gets truly serious. It is a necessary and compelling book, and this year’s must read." (Anne Enright)

"It's her best book yet, another big step forward. " (Jonathan Franzen)

L'autore

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.

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910702676
• ISBN 13: 9781910702673
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 352