Attic
Auteur: Katherine Dunn
Nombre de pages: 149 pages
ISBN: 0446391522, 9780446391528
Edition: Warner Books
Date de publication: Warner Books
Description: As a teenager, author Katherine Dunn walked into a nightmare. She joined an organization that would later be exposed as venal and illegal: a magazine crew. In a cult-like environment, she was sent to small towns with other teens; if they didn't sell subscriptions, they didn't eat; and though they were promised bonuses, none of them was ever paid. And one day Katherine's attempt to cash a customer's bad check landed her in a Kansas City jail... Out of the terrifying days and nights that followed would come her first book--a powerful, shocking account of a young woman in prison, losing her illusions and her innocence in the harsh, brutal life of bars and steel, primitive emotions and raw humanity. An account that will stun us in its ferocity and make us feel its pain and truth, Attic breaks down our stereotypes about women, sex, and justice. In it, we enter "Kay's" mind, we suffer her indignities, and we cheer the fine intelligence that has produced this gem of a book of of the ashes of the heart.