Rachel Kushner

The Mars Room

Sprecher: Kushner, Rachel

• Audio CD

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SIMON & SCHUSTER
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 630 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781508244370
• Artikelnr.: 49557175

Autorenporträt

Rachel Kushner is the author of Creation Lake, her latest novel, The Hard Crowd, her acclaimed essay collection, and the internationally bestselling 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, the Folio Prize, 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 are translated into twenty-seven languages.

Rezensionen

It is an unforgettable novel, and leaves the reader in no doubt that Kushner is one of America's greatest living authors. Daily Telegraph