| The Color of Night Contributor(s): Bell, Madison Smartt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307741885 ISBN-13: 9780307741882 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010019104 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.26" W x 7.96" (0.49 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Las Vegas, Nevada - Geographic Orientation - Nevada - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |