The Color of Night

Authors: Bell, Madison Smartt
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC019000, FIC025000
ISBN: 9780307742414, Related ISBNs: 0307741885, 0307742415, 9780307741882, 9780307742414
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 224,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, 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.
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