The Mars Room : a novel /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Scribner,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781476756554 1476756554 |
