6/20/2023 0 Comments Rachel kushner the mars room![]() ![]() I feel much the same about the work of Kushner, whose 2005 debut, "Telex From Cuba," about an American family in pre-Castro Cuba heralded a major talent and whose follow-up, "The Flamethrowers," confirmed it. Only a killjoy, she tells us, would claim that neon wasn't beautiful. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: Early in Rachel Kushner's novel "The Flamethrowers," its heroine Reno is racing through Utah on her motorcycle when she sees the dancing lights of a casino on the Nevada border. ![]() Our critic-at-large, John Powers, says that in this book, orange is definitely not the new black. The new one tells the story of a young woman incarcerated for murder in a women's prison in California. "The Mars Room" is the third novel by Rachel Kushner, whose first two, "Telex From Cuba" and "The Flamethrowers," were both finalists for the National Book Award. ![]()
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