Nantilus
The color of night
"Mae, a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The color of night / Madison Smartt Bell |
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New York :
Vintage Books
, 2011 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (208 p.) |
| Contenu : | "A Vintage Books Original, April 2011". T.p. verso |
| Résumé : | "Mae, a Las Vegas blackjack dealer, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure anarchy, thrills at the destruction. These images recall memories of a childhood marked by unthinkable abuse, of her drift into a cult that committed the most shocking crime of the '60s, of her life since then as a feral and wary outsider, caught in a swirl of events at once personal, political, mythic"--Publisher description |
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| ISBN : | 978-0-307-74188-2 0-307-74188-5 |