The panopticon : a novel /
Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "Born in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hogarth,
[2012]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Like everyone else in the Panopticon, 15-year-old Anais Hendricks has been in and out of foster care practically since birth. "Born in a nuthouse to nobody that was ever seen again," she had her only successful foster placement with a prostitute later stabbed to death (Anais found the body). She's been sent to this facility, where the inmates are under constant surveillance, because she had a bad history with a policewoman who has been bludgeoned into a coma, and Anais, almost permanently whacked on whatever drug she can lay her hands on, can't explain why she has blood on her skirt. Amid the institution's crescent-shaped buildings and all-seeing watchtower, Anais befriends a group of ragtag ruffians and delves into her past, endlessly stoned and concerned she's being watched by an entity she calls "the experiment." |
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| Physical Description: | 282 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780385347860 (hbk.) 0385347863 (hbk.) |