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| Author/Contributor(s): |
HOWELL, REBECCA GAYLE
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| Publisher: |
Eyewear Publishing
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| Date: |
2/10/2017
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Sexton Prize for Poetry (selected by Don Share of
Poetry magazine), AMERICAN PURGATORY is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe that if they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a journey that will take them away from work, belief, and even each other, until the protagonist uncovers a truth about this place that indeed sets her free. Equal parts Dante and Cormac McCarthy, AMERICAN PURGATORY is a coming-of-age for capitalism written in the decade of tea-party terror.
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