{"product_id":"mars-room-book-rachel-kushner-9781476756585","title":"The Mars Room","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELER - \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR - \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOK OF 2018\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFINALIST for the MAN BOKER PRIZE and LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eGritty, empathetic, finely rendered, no sugary toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled. --Margaret Atwood via Twitter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA page turner.one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart. --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e(cover review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrilliant and devastating.a heartbreaking, true, and nearly flawless novel. --\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith her richly textured third novel, Kushner certifies her place as one of the great American novelists of the twenty-first century. --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose \u003ci\u003eFlamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e was called the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year (Kathryn Schulz, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stunning and unsentimental, \u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in Kushner's work. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined. As James Wood said in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, her fiction succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49665053753617,"sku":"GOR013506364","price":4.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49677191151889,"sku":"CIN1476756589G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49884482994449,"sku":"CIN1476756589A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889676165393,"sku":"CIN1476756589VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028438745361,"sku":"NIN9781476756585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51437274431761,"sku":"GOR010848842","price":6.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1476756589.jpg?v=1751020914","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mars-room-book-rachel-kushner-9781476756585","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}