Chain-Gang All-Stars / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
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TextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: Large print editionDescription: 573 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781638088158Other title: Chain Gang All StarsSubject(s): African American prisoners -- Fiction | Contests -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Lesbians -- Fiction | Mass incarceration -- Fiction | Prison violence -- Fiction | Private prisons -- Fiction | Women gladiators -- Fiction | Women prisoners -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Dystopian fiction. | Lesbian fiction. | Political fiction. Summary: Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the ancient gladiator games, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favourites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences.
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Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the ancient gladiator games, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favourites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences.
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