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2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which is a prison-for-profit financed by a multinational corporation under government contract, and meant to house felons, illegal immigrants, and, as Lafleur comes to learn, political prisoners from Latin America. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism - in both the domestic and international realms.

Visit the author's website: http://www.keeblefiction.com/

Broken Ground: A Novel

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Paperback / softback by John Keeble , Kathleen Moore

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2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Broken Ground employs a construction project in the... Read more

    Publisher: University of Washington Press
    Publication Date: 18/10/2010
    ISBN13: 9780295990484, 978-0295990484
    ISBN10: 0295990481

    Number of Pages: 456

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    2011 Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries

    Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which is a prison-for-profit financed by a multinational corporation under government contract, and meant to house felons, illegal immigrants, and, as Lafleur comes to learn, political prisoners from Latin America. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism - in both the domestic and international realms.

    Visit the author's website: http://www.keeblefiction.com/

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