Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner

The Mars Room

  • The Mars Room

  • SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers – a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration.

    Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Her crime? The killing of her stalker.

    Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside: the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson.

    As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line – until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.

    'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers' STYLIST

    'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful' NEW YORK TIMES

    'Breathtaking' VOGUE

The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities
Marguerite Duras
Telex from Cuba
Telex from Cuba
Rachel Kushner
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner

Everyman's Library CLASSICS

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Features

A Reykjavik bookseller on why Iceland is the number one Christmas destination for book lovers

Books and Christmas go hand in hand for Icelanders. A country famous for its love of books and storytelling, Iceland has a uniquely rich literary heritage. Svanborg Þórdís Sigurðardóttir, a bookseller at Reykjavík’s famous Penninn Eymundsson bookshop, tells us what it’s like to work as a bookseller in Iceland at Christmas.
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News

Daisy Johnson, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2018

Three Penguin Random House books have made it onto the shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize; making up half of the six-strong list.
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Extracts

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex. Read an extract from her Man Booker Prize 2018 Shortlisted book, The Mars Room, below.
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Features

All you need to know about the 3 Vintage titles on the shortlist

VINTAGE are delighted to announce that we have two books on the Man Booker Prize 2018 shortlist; Everything Under by Daisy Johnson and The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner. Here’s everything you need to know about these wonderful books, and plenty of good reasons to put them to the top of your to-be-read pile.

Rachel Kushner is the author of The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers, were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

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