The Mars Room
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 livi…
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- Full title :The Mars Room / Rachel Kushner.
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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.
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- Publication Date:©2018
- Edition:First Scribner hardback edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Scribner
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:338 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781476756554, 1476756554
- oclc:on1325467695
- LC Classification:PS3611.U7386
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
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