God of the Rodeo: The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
by Daniel Bergner
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Author: Daniel BergnerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-05
ISBN: 0345435532
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Summary: 4 Stars
Bergner,who I should begin by saying I've known personally for some 13 years, has done an in incredible thing in this his first work of non-fiction. He's written a book that at once takes the reader to a deceptively verdant-death-row in Louisiana (the Prison was formerly a Plantation, think Tara times ten) to the born-again-warden's living-room,to the inmate's families less-than-Tara-like-homes. Bergner has focused all of his novelist's empathy and amazing acuity, and attention to detail on the lives of a few good----though very Bad men. The book becomes increasingly spiritual as the writers' year with the inmates draws to a close---as did this reader's experience of the writing and of Bergner's subjects'lives. Ultimately it's a book that, eventhough I work in publishing and could get them for free, I've just ordered six copies of to give to friends who Dan and I do not have in common.
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