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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780593317334
- Book Title
- Chain Gang All Stars : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Dystopian, African American / General, Satire, Literary, Political
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 23.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION - A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE "This book is so good. Brutal subject matter, beautiful writing. This one is from the heart." -- Stephen King A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews "Like Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , Adjei-Brenyah's book presents a dystopian vision so...illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we're capable of doing." -- The Washington Post She felt their eyes, all those executioners... Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death matches before packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, Thurwar considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games. But CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors, to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars i s a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a "new and necessary American voice" (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review ).
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593317335
ISBN-13
9780593317334
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23057258463
Product Key Features
Book Title
Chain Gang All Stars : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, African American / General, Satire, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3601.D49c48 2023
Reviews
A MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE OF 2023: from Washington Post, Goodreads, Salon , the Seattle Times , Huffington Post, The Week , YahooLife, Sunset Magazine, Book Riot, The Everygirl, The Millions, Lit-Reactor, Our Culture, Republican American, Women's Wear Daily, The Independent, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus *Roxane Gay's May Selection for the Audacious Book Club* "Given how incredible his debut collection was and is, it is no surprise to me that Adjei-Brenyah's debut novel is this extraordinary! Told with bold, muscular prose, this book is filled with surprising tenderness. Some of the best and most beautiful descriptions of action and violence I have ever read, which is not to say the book celebrates violence so much as it uses violence to explore American incarceration by imagining it as spectacle. As big as it is dazzling. Just wild how good and original this book is. A revelation!" -- Tommy Orange, author of There, There "A defiant, awe-inspiring novel that will be read, studied, and celebrated for generations, Chain-Gang All-Stars leads with love. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes with stunning compassion and moral clarity as he interrogates every facet of our carceral world and the American spectacle of violence, never losing sight of the human cost of systemic injustice. Readers will be forever changed by this book." -- Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers "Chain-Gang All-Stars makes explicit how the spirit erodes as the body becomes currency. Adjei-Brenyah writes sharply about the economy of spectacle and the fickle alchemy between futility and hope." -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster "Adjei-Brenyah may have the buzziest book of the year...A ferocious attack on America's for-profit prison systems." -- Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of 2023 "In a narrative world where the real is growingly more unbelievable than the make believe, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny, singular feat of literature. I've never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. It's nuts brilliant. Just read it!" --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "A clear-eyed critique of our country's prison system, along with the profit and racism inherent in them." -- Salon "With his sharp eye for satire and reverence for humanity, Adjei-Brenyah's latest explores the exploitation, violence, and false promises of the prison industrial complex, capitalism, and the country itself." -- The Millions " Chain-Gang All-Stars should pique your interest if titles like Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Atwood's Handmaid's Tale are more your vibe." -- The Week "At once a kaleidoscopic, imaginative examination of America's unjust prison system, and a fantasy-tinged spectacle, Chain-Gang All-Stars is likely to excite and provoke in equal measure." -- Our Culture "A searing debut with an unforgettable voice, Chain Gang All-Stars will force you to reevaluate what freedom in America really means." -- Lit-Reactor "Searingly entertaining." -- Publishers Weekly , "An Interview with the Year 2023", A MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE OF THE YEAR: Goodreads, Salon , Seattle Times , The Week , YahooLife, Book Riot, The Everygirl, Lit-Reactor, Our Culture, Republican American, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus *Roxane Gay's May Selection for the Audacious Book Club* "A defiant, awe-inspiring novel that will be read, studied, and celebrated for generations, Chain-Gang All-Stars leads with love. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes with stunning compassion and moral clarity as he interrogates every facet of our carceral world and the American spectacle of violence, never losing sight of the human cost of systemic injustice. Readers will be forever changed by this book." -- Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers "Chain-Gang All-Stars makes explicit how the spirit erodes as the body becomes currency. Adjei-Brenyah writes sharply about the economy of spectacle and the fickle alchemy between futility and hope." -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster "Adjei-Brenyah may have the buzziest book of the year...A ferocious attack on America's for-profit prison systems." -- Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of 2023 "In a narrative world where the real is growingly more unbelievable than the make believe, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny, singular feat of literature. I've never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. It's nuts brilliant. Just read it!" --Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "A clear-eyed critique of our country's prison system, along with the profit and racism inherent in them." -- Salon " Chain-Gang All-Stars should pique your interest if titles like Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Atwood's Handmaid's Tale are more your vibe." -- The Week "At once a kaleidoscopic, imaginative examination of America's unjust prison system, and a fantasy-tinged spectacle, Chain-Gang All-Stars is likely to excite and provoke in equal measure." -- Our Culture "A searing debut with an unforgettable voice, Chain Gang All-Stars will force you to reevaluate what freedom in America really means." -- Lit-Reactor "Searingly entertaining." -- Publishers Weekly , "An Interview with the Year 2023", Praise for Chain-Gang All-Stars A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Most Anticipated Literary Fiction Titles of Spring 23 A Goodreads Most Anticipated Title of 2023 A YahooLife! Most Anticipated Title of 2023 "In a narrative world where the real is growingly more unbelievable than the make believe, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny, singular feat of literature. I've never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. It's nuts brilliant. Just read it!" -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir "Adjei-Brenyah may have the buzziest book of the year...A ferocious attack on America's for-profit prison systems." -- Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Praise for Friday Black "A new and necessary American voice...In Friday Black , the dystopian future Adjei-Brenyah depicts--like all great dystopian fiction--is bleakly futuristic only on its surface. At its center, each story--sharp as a knife--points to right now." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review "Impressive . . . There's enormous talent on display in Friday Black ." -- The Wall Street Journal "A pleasure to be in the company of a new voice as exciting as this." -- Vogue "Surreal, sobering, and tender all at once." -- People "Fearless . . . [A] major literary debut." -- Entertainment Weekly "I can't wait to see all of the work he does from here." -- Yaa Gyasi, on The Today Show "I can't remember the last book that has moved, unsettled, inspired me the way Friday Black did...These are stories in which the satirical humor cuts as deep as its gritty violence." -- Lauren Christensen, The New York Times "Vivid, original...Adjei-Brenyah presents America in all its racism, weirdness and abject consumerism." -- TIME " Friday Black is as intellectually hefty as fiction can get...[Adjei-Brenyah's] work is fiercely, spikily funny...The energy in his fiction is wild, barely controllable yet perfectly controlled...[He] fits big emotion, big action, and big thought into each story." -- NPR "Inventive and stirring...Ingenious...So daring and mind-bending that you haven't a clue where he's going to take you." -- Bernardine Evaristo, The Guardian, Praise for Chain-Gang All-Stars "In a narrative world where the real is growingly more unbelievable than the make believe, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny, singular feat of literature. I've never read satire so bruising, so brolic, so tender and really, so pitch-perfect. Just read it!" -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir Praise for Friday Black "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review "Impressive . . . There's enormous talent on display in Friday Black ." -- The Wall Street Journal "A pleasure to be in the company of a new voice as exciting as this." -- Vogue "Surreal, sobering, and tender all at once." -- People "Fearless . . . [A] major literary debut." -- Entertainment Weekly "I can't wait to see all of the work he does from here." -- Yaa Gyasi, on The Today Show "I can't remember the last book that has moved, unsettled, inspired me the way Friday Black did...These are stories in which the satirical humor cuts as deep as its gritty violence." -- Lauren Christensen, The New York Times "Vivid, original...Adjei-Brenyah presents America in all its racism, weirdness and abject consumerism." -- TIME " Friday Black is as intellectually hefty as fiction can get...[Adjei-Brenyah's] work is fiercely, spikily funny...The energy in his fiction is wild, barely controllable yet perfectly controlled...[He] fits big emotion, big action, and big thought into each story." -- NPR "Inventive and stirring...Ingenious...So daring and mind-bending that you haven't a clue where he's going to take you." -- Bernardine Evaristo, The Guardian
Table of Content
The Freeing of Melancholia Bishop Part I Hurricane Staxxx B3 Teacup The Bandwagon Electric Hendrix "Scorpion Singer" Young The Van Personhood Link Circuit Sports Central Salt Bath Simon The New Food Door Four Stable Part II Simon Craft Children of Incarcerated People Vega The Board Melee To Be Influenced The Art of Influence Sing- Attica- Sing Vacation Grounded Simon J. Craft Sung Babe? The Ride McCleskey Hamara Presser We the Enslaved Interview Kai Balloon Archway The Farmers Market Deane's Creams This Part III Sunset Harkless Tear Gas The Legend of One-Arm Scorpion Singer Hendrix and the Unkillable Jungle Craft Bad Water The Regional Preparation The Drive The Morning Of Shareef The Feeling Yes Through the Door Season 33 Suck My Dick, America BlackOut Game Colossal Freeing Day Loretta Thurwar Acknowledgments
Lccn
2022-017029
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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