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The
2007 Award
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Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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1974, a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese
Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla
name 'Tania' and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former
captors. Has she been brainwashed? Why else would such a nice girl disavow
her loving parents, her adoring fiancé, her comfortable home? Why
would she adopt the SLA's cri de guerre, 'Death to the Fascist Insect that
Preys Upon the Life of the People'?
Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades - the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda - into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania's sentimental education. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Christopher Sorrentino is the author of one previous novel, Sound on Sound (1995). He lives in Brooklyn. |
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