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Cargando... Stone City (1989)por Mitchell Smith
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is very highly rated by many. I wish I had enjoyed it more -- it was long and grueling. The basic premise is that a college professor named Bauman, convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk, is tasked with finding a person responsible for two murders within the prison. Both prison officials and various gangs want answers, with both applying pressure. Bauman works with the male "daughter" of one of the deceased on the investigation. Prison life is raw and brutal, and this book is often likened to HBO's Oz series: inedible food, rapes, beatings, stabbings, corruption among the guards, hierarches, alliances, nothing is spared. Besides the overly graphic descriptions, I had a hard time with the number of characters and think much would be gained from a listing at the beginning. In the end though, the murderer's reasons and motivations were a surprise, at least to me. ( ) Charles Bauman, geschiedenisleraar, rijdt onder invloed van alcohol een jong meisje dood. Hij wordt veroordeeld tot een gevangenisstraf in een kolossale Amerikaanse staatsgevangenis midden tussen het rauwste uitschot van de maatschappij. Dan wordt er een reeks gruwelijke moorden gepleegd in de gevangenis zelf. De directie oefent druk uit op Bauman om de moordenaar te ontmaskeren. Een bloedstollende en fel realistische roman met een onbarmhartige bloedige ontknoping. Buitengewone klasse, eens je het boek gelezen hebt laat het je nooit meer los. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A thrilling and gripping page-turner, that serves as both a sociological study of prison life and a metaphor for contemporary America. In a prison of youthful hardcore criminals, a college professor convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk teaches other inmates reading skills. A series of killings prompts officials to coerce Bauman to track down the killer. His quest takes readers into the web of corruption that is inherent in a big state prison. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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