ISBN: 9781476756585
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Kushner, Rachel
Año de edición: 2019
N° Páginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: TIME'S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDLONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALAn 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). Críticas "[An] electrifying take on the chaos of 1980s San Francisco."--Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair "Phosphorescently vivid."--Megan O'Grady, T Magazine "Superb and gritty... Kushner has an exceptional ability to be in the heads of her character."--Eve MacSweeney, Vogue "A powerful undertow pulls the reader through the book. I didn't consume it so much as it consumed me, bite by bite..."--Laura Miller, Slate "Kushner's characters are so authentic and vividly drawn that with each new novel, it's easy to assume she's tapped out. Yet inThe Mars Room, she brings to life another remarkable heroine."--Time Magazine"A revelatory novel about women on the margins of society...it's a true feat of Kushner's extraordinary writing that such profound ugliness can result in such tumultuous beauty."--Maris Kreizman, Vulture "Stunning...Heartbreaking and wholly original."--Bustle "A probing portrait of contemporary America."--Entertainment Weekly "Unflinching."--Elle "Kushner's great gift is for the evocation of a scene, a time and place."--Harper's "Absorbing...The Mars Room is impeccably researched without ever seeming dry or preachy... insightful...authoritative...haunting."--Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle "Kushner's got the talent to justify the hype...The Mars Room builds to a redemption that comes from hard truth, sharp and broken and shaped by an author of exceptional power and grace."--Jeff Baker, The Seattle Times "The book is beautifully written, without sentimentality or agenda, and at times even [with] a sly and dark humor."--Holly Silva, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Readers will savor every detail of Ms. Kushner's descriptive passages, which bring ferocious beauty to even the ugliest surroundings."--Leigh Anne Focareta, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette "[Kushner is] an exceptionally talented and philosophically minded writer."--Jessica Zack, The San Francisco Chronicle"An essential novel...Kushner is a bit of a magician, exploring bleak territory with pathos and urgency that makes it nearly impossible to stop reading."--AM New York "Kushner is both tough and darkly funny in writing about her characters' situations, and she writes not so much for us to empathize with them, but rather to understand them.The Mars Room is a captivating and beautiful novel."--Boo
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Kushner, Rachel
- Editorial: Scribner
- N° Paginas: 352
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
