![]() The Mars Room is immediately an American expose’ of women in prison, including ample demonstration of attendant male psychology and conduct. ![]() (See elsewhere in the present blog for a review of Gone Girl.) Conversely, The Mars Room is quite recognizable as serious literature: the signs are obvious and heartening. ![]() The novel’s probity, range and passion are vital and yet beyond too many of the Usual Suspect literary critics distracted by their particular hobgoblin, “genre” fiction, of which Flynn’s novel is anything but. A literary gift, Flynn’s unexpected, brilliantly original, and mind-changing masterpiece, is a broad but controlled capturing of the present American drama wickedly satirized. ![]() A case might be made now–halfway through 2018–that two of the most dominant voices in current American literary fiction are the novelists Gillian Flynn for Gone Girl and Rachel Kushner for The Mars Room. ![]()
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