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Chain-Gang All-Stars
- Narrated by: Shayna Small, Michael Crouch, Lee Osorio, Aaron Goodson
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?
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- Anonymous User
- 01-02-2024
The story with the factual asides
Really really great book. To balance the satire whilst having a really interesting and engaging story takes skill and Nana nails it here. The little segments of real life facts sprinkled through the book are done very well, where a lesser writer would struggle with integrating facts like this, Nana does it seamlessly. Very thought provoking book with real life connotations (scarily so). Manages to humanise the people that we as a society in the current world and system actively de-humanise, but without shying away from the actions that landed them in prison in the first place.
Very well done and a must read for anyone that can stomach some violence.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-05-2023
Everyone should read this!
This is without a doubt the best book I’ve read this year!
The descriptions of a not too distant American prison system felt so real, so alive.
Read it! Read it!
The performances are so good, best audiobook I’ve listened to
The stories are filled with nuance and compassion,
Loved every minute of it
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- Anonymous User
- 26-05-2023
Expected a kind of hunger games - got so much more
This was such a beautiful and addictive book. The characters were wonderfully developed and the narrators performed them with such elegance, it may be my favourite audio book performance yet. Even more, chain gang spoke to the spectrum of human experience, holding dialectic perspectives with compassion and nuance.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-02-2024
Superb story, disturbingly possible
An engaging account of a very possible future, driven by a superb narrative from multiple characters perspectives
Footnotes about current correctional and civic mistreatment make the authors potential future seem even more possible
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- Shannon Bourke
- 18-06-2023
voices were great!
really enjoyed this one.
think hunger games x blm
dystopia, like our world but little bit diff'rent
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- Stephen Ellis
- 02-01-2024
Brilliant book, from start to end
An entertaining story well told by a first-class cast. Highly recommend reading now before it no doubt becomes a film in coming years.
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