{"product_id":"the-mars-room-by-rachel-kushner","title":"The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eThis absorbing work “conjures a hard-boiled vision of life in a maximum-security women’s prison”, said Nick Curtis in the London Evening Standard. Rachel Kushner is best known for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Flamethrowers\u003c\/i\u003e, her acclaimed second novel about art and motorbikes. In her latest, Romy Hall, a San Francisco lap dancer, is serving a double life sentence for killing her stalker. Through her, Kushner explores the brutal stratifications of prison life: the hatred of baby-killers, the casual racism. But this is also a novel about the “San Francisco tourists don’t see, where a hopeless underclass gets funnelled into drugs and crime”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eKushner’s depiction of US criminal justice is a “masterclass in banal horror”, said Sarah Crown in the Literary Review.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mars Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a “bleak and bitter interrogation” of modern America. There’s no doubting its ambition, but it doesn’t always succeed as a work of fiction, said Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Times. Kushner’s focus on the “accumulation of detail” often comes at the expense of coherence. “The result is a novel that is abundant, but empty.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54037975630100,"sku":"rgx1789765505256","price":14.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/the-mars-room-by-rachel-kushner_1.jpg?v=1789765511","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/the-mars-room-by-rachel-kushner","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}