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442 pp.
| Dial |
February, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3396-1$17.99
(1)
YA
Finn is a Prisoner, trapped in the sentient prison Incarceron. Claudia, daughter of the Warden, has been raised to privilege in a technologically sophisticated society that has chosen to artificially re-create a simpler, seventeenth-century-esque "Era." Fisher's dystopic future, in which technology and decay coexist in a dazzling kaleidoscope of images and time periods, is brilliantly realized in this elegant, gritty, often surprising novel.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2010