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The Color of Night

Madison Smartt Bell

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: April 05, 2011

ISBN: 0307741885

ISBN 13: 9780307741882

The Color of Night

Madison Smartt Bell

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: April 05, 2011

ISBN: 0307741885

ISBN 13: 9780307741882

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