Title The Mars room / Rachel Kushner

Published London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2018 London : Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, 2018 ©2018

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Description 340 pages ; 24 cm 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 Notes Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 2018 Man Booker Prize Subject American fiction -- 21st century. Children of prisoners -- Fiction. Female offenders -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Prisons -- United States -- California -- Fiction. Reformatories for women -- Fiction. Social problem films. Women prisoners -- Fiction. Women prisoners -- United States -- Fiction. Women prisoners -- United States -- California -- Fiction. SUBJECT San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111424 Genre/Form Psychological fiction. Fiction. LC no. be2018021090 ISBN 9781910702673 9781910702680

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