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The mars room : a novel / Rachel Kushner.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476756554
- ISBN: 1476756554
- Physical Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Subject: | Women prisoners > Fiction Life change events > Fiction Mothers and sons > Fiction FICTION / Literary. FICTION / General. FICTION / Crime. Women prisoners |
| Genre: | Fiction. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River County Library | FIC KUSHNER (Text) | 33892100533307 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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.
