| Description |
208 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| Subject |
Card dealers -- Fiction.
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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Fiction.
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Marginality, Social -- Fiction.
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Social isolation -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780307741882 paperback |
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0307741885 paperback |
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