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Broken Ground A Novel
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keeble, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oregon--Fiction.
- Oregon.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Prisons--Design and construction--Fiction.
- Prisons.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (456 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School LibrariesBroken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which is a prison-for-profit financed by a multinational corporation under government contract, and meant to house felons, illegal immigrants, and, as Lafleur comes to learn, political prisoners from Latin America. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism - in both the domestic and international realms.Visit the author's website: http://www.keeblefiction.com/
- Contents:
- Cover; BROKEN GROUND; FOREWORD; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; POSTSCRIPT
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295805467
- 0295805463
- OCLC:
- 1039086117
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