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Riots I Have Known
Ryan Chapman
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2020-11-17
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Satire
Fiction / Humorous / General
Fiction / General
Literary Collections / Essays
ISBN
1501197312
9781501197314
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0DkEEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize,
Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (
Esquire
) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR).
A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor’s Letter.
Riots I Have Known
is his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge.
His tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of
The Holding Pen
, a “masterpiece of post-penal literature” favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he’s really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons.
“Fitfully funny and murderously wry,”
Riots I Have Known
is “a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege” (
Kirkus Reviews
).