SIGNED The Mars Room by RACHEL KUSHNER (Flamethrowers) NEW paperback 2018 ARC

Description: The Mars Rooma novel by Rachel Kushnerauthor of THE FLAMETHROWERS SIGNED on title page by the authorincludes publisher's promotional letter Advance Reading Copy (ARC): An ARC/galley/uncorrected proof is a limited edition version of a book sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and bloggers prior to its scheduled release and may differ slightly from the final version. NOT A PRE-ORDER. Ships immediately upon payment. Trade-size with Paperback illustrated wrappersPublisher: Scribner318 pagesBrand-New book in unread conditionPublication Date: May 2018 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). “Brilliant and devastating…Kushner doesn't make a false move in her third novel; she writes with an intelligence and a ferocity that sets her apart from most others in her cohort. She's a remarkably original and compassionate author, and The Mars Room is a heartbreaking, true and nearly flawless novel.”—Michael Schaub, NPR.org “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.”—BookPage “Kushner's writing is clipped and sharp, as she tells the story of [Romy's] adjustment to life behind bars — and how she got there.” —The Week “An enormously ambitious project profoundly rooted in a particular time and place… Kushner’s greatest achievement in this unique work of brilliance and rigor is to urge us all to take responsibility for the unconscionable state of the world in which we operate blithely every single day.”—Jennifer Croft, The Los Angeles Review of Books “Rachel Kushner cements her place as the most vital and interesting American novelist working today...The Mars Room makes most other contemporary fiction seem timid and predictable."—Michael Lindgren, The Millions “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 Rachel Kushner is the author of internationally acclaimed novels The Mars Room, The Flamethrowers, and Telex from Cuba, as well as a book of short stories, The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been a finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into twenty-six languages. condition: BRAND NEW BOOK IN UNREAD CONDITION ADVANCE READERS COPY / UNCORRECTED PROOF THE ITEM SHOWN IN PHOTO IS THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE. NOT A STOCK IMAGE. S H I P P I N G R A T E S U. S. for MEDIA $10.00 for PRIORITY I N T E R N A T I O N A L $25.00 for INTERNATIONAL FIRST CLASS C A N A D A A N D M E X I C O $20.00 for INTERNATIONAL FIRST CLASS International Bidders Welcome! Seller ships worldwide. SELLER WILL COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGE FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS ORDERED. All books are carefully packed in custom cardboard book mailers for safe shipment. Seller accepts Paypal.FAST SHIPPING! 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