The Mars Room Rachel Kushner by Rachel Kushner 9781476756608, 1476756600 instant download after payment.

Rachel Kushner combines a gritty portrait of life on the margins of contemporary America with a stinging indictment of the US penal system.

Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living; her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of her estranged mother. Inside is the new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials of survival – the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike, allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes.  Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room 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 The New Yorker, her fiction “succeeds because it is so full of vibrantly different stories and histories, all of them particular, all of them brilliantly alive.”

“Brilliant and devastating…a heartbreaking, true, and nearly flawless novel.” —  NPR 

“With her richly textured third novel, Kushner certifies her place as one of the great American novelists of the twenty-first century.” — Entertainment Weekly 

Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of three novels: the Booker Prize- and NBCC Award–shortlisted The Mars Room; The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times top ten books of 2013; and Telex from Cuba, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Guggenheim Foundation.