Description
She felt their eyes, all those executioners...
Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
'The new maestro of dystopian lit has arrived' WIRED
'Beautiful and brutal' INDEPENDENT
'Electrifying' GEORGE SAUNDERS
Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's private prison system. In packed arenas, live-streamed by millions, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?
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READERS CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER
'I've waited my whole life for a sapphic Hunger Games!'
'An explosive page-turner that's also a chilling social commentary.'
'This novel is alive and glorious. Give it all the awards.'
'Had me cheering and weeping, unable to tear my eyes from the page.'
'A masterpiece that packs a mighty punch.'
About the Author
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black. He is a National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' honoree, a winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for Best First Book and the Dylan Thomas Prize, among many other accolades. Raised in Spring Valley, New York, he now lives in the Bronx.
Reviews
An exuberant circus of a novel, action-packed and expansive...fuelled by a sense of thrilling, righteous rage. -- Xan Brooks * Guardian *
Magnificent. A radical interrogation of incarceration, racism, entertainment, the whole fabric of American injustice, as well as a pure fire page turner. -- Max Porter, author of SHY
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is one of the most exciting young writers in America. His work is urgent, engaging, wildly entertaining, formally bold and politically electrifying. Read one page, any page, and you'll see what I mean. -- George Saunders, author of LINCOLN IN THE BARDO
A rumbustious satire of the criminal justice system, a book that is far more entertaining than an attempt to convince its readers of the case for prison abolition has any right to be. -- David Shariatmadari * Guardian *
Adjei-Brenyah is clearly a writer of substance, with something to say. * Observer *
Book Information
ISBN 9781529920567
Author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 35mm
