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The Mars Room
The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner (born 1968)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Mars Room
Scribner · United States · 7 May 2019 · Paperback · 352 pages
The Mars Room
Scribner · United States · May 2018 · Hardcover · 352 pages
The Mars Room
Jonathan Cape · United Kingdom · 7 June 2018
The Mars Room
Vintage · United Kingdom · 7 March 2019 · Paperback · 352 pages
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Romy Hall used to give lap dances at the Mars Room, a strip club in San Francisco. Now, convicted of killing a man who stalked her, she faces two life terms to be served one after the other at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility in California, while Jackson, her son of seven, lives with her estranged mother. Inside, thousands of women scramble for the basics amid absurd rules, violence from guards and prisoners alike, and loyalties sealed over sock-brewed liquor. Romy recalls her past in the city as she gets to know the other inmates, reads books suggested by Gordon Hauser, a kindly but naive teacher at the prison, and aches for her son, while the story of a corrupt former policeman held elsewhere widens the view of the whole penal machine.
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- United States
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- 2018
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- 50 when first published
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9781476756554 (Scribner, United States)
9780099589969 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
9781476756585 (Scribner, United States)
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