Signed Waterstones Exclusive Edition with additional essay How The Bounty Hunter Sees and alternative boards with coloured scythe
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Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular,highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators,but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers,prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara'Hurricane Staxxx'Stacker,teammates and lovers,are the fan favourites. If all goes well,Thurwar will be free in just a few matches,a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. But will the price be simply too high
From one of American fiction's brightest stars,this is an electrifying,page-turning near-future dystopia perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale,Squid Game and Watchmen.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 2928377173487Number of pages: 400Weight: 750 gDimensions: 240 x 156 x 40 mm
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'A defiant,awe-inspiring novel that will be read,studied,and celebrated for generations,Chain-Gang All-Stars leads with love. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah writes with stunning compassion and moral clarity as he interrogates every facet of our carceral world and the American spectacle of violence,never losing sight of the human cost of systemic injustice. Readers will be forever changed by this book.'-Jessamine Chan
'Chain-Gang All-Stars makes explicit how the spirit erodes as the body becomes currency. Adjei-Brenyah writes sharply about the economy of spectacle and the fickle alchemy between futility and hope.'- Raven Leilani
'Given how incredible his debut collection was and is,it is no surprise to me that Adjei-Brenyah's debut novel is this extraordinary! Told with bold,muscular prose,this book is filled with surprising tenderness. Some of the best and most beautiful descriptions of action and violence I have ever read,which is not to say the book celebrates violence so much as it uses violence to explore American incarceration by imagining it as spectacle. As big as it is dazzling. Just wild how good and original this book is. A revelation!'- Tommy Orange
'In a narrative world where the real is growingly more unbelievable than the make believe,Chain-Gang All-Stars is an uncanny,singular feat for literature. I've never read satire so bruising,so brolic,so tender and,really,so pitch-perfect. It's nuts brilliant. Just read it!'-Kiese Laymon
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the bestselling American author of short fiction collection Friday Black and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023-shortlisted Chain-Gang All-Stars.
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