The Mars Room: A Novel

  • Author: Rachel Kushner
  • Narrator: Rachel Kushner
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:41:23
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Synopsis

TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018

FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.”

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, 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: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. 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, portrayed with great humor and precision.

Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).

Chapters

  • MarsRoom 01 Title

    Duration: 01min
  • MarsRoom 02 Part1Ch1

    Duration: 56min
  • MarsRoom 03 Ch2

    Duration: 28min
  • MarsRoom 04 Ch3

    Duration: 01min
  • MarsRoom 05 Ch4

    Duration: 18min
  • MarsRoom 06 Ch5

    Duration: 17min
  • MarsRoom 07 Ch6

    Duration: 01min
  • MarsRoom 08 Ch7

    Duration: 27min
  • MarsRoom 09 Ch8

    Duration: 02min
  • MarsRoom 10 Ch9

    Duration: 08min
  • MarsRoom 11 Ch10

    Duration: 02min
  • MarsRoom 12 Ch11

    Duration: 56min
  • MarsRoom 13 Part2Ch12

    Duration: 28min
  • MarsRoom 14 Ch13

    Duration: 17min
  • MarsRoom 15 Ch14

    Duration: 54min
  • MarsRoom 16 Ch15

    Duration: 18min
  • MarsRoom 17 Ch16

    Duration: 01min
  • MarsRoom 18 Ch17

    Duration: 13min
  • MarsRoom 19 Ch18

    Duration: 23min
  • MarsRoom 20 Ch19

    Duration: 14min
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