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Product Identifiers
PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100609601059
ISBN-139780609601051
eBay Product ID (ePID)255513
Product Key Features
Book TitleGod of the Rodeo : the Search for Hope, Faith, and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicSociology / General, Rodeos, Penology
GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science
AuthorDaniel Bergner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-018485
Reviews"A fascinating descent into the hell of one of America's most notorious prisons, God of the Rodeo offers a surprising and humane portrait of the men trapped in a horror beyond imagining." --JOHN BERENDT Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil "A STORY OF SUCH ELOQUENCE AND BRUTALITY THAT, FROM TIME TO TIME, I SIMPLY HAD TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN AND THINK ABOUT WHAT I'D JUST READ. MAGNIFICENT!" --SEBASTIAN JUNGER Author of The Perfect Storm "Chilling and heartbreaking . . . A vivid, ambitious, and ferociously reported book that reads like a novel . . . Even people who know something about prison rodeos will find it hard not to be caught up in the richly etched lives he discovers behind the ghoulish pageantry. . . . Bergner's rich, probing and compassionate book is a rare look at both the physical and spiritual world on the other side of the bars. . . . An eloquent and valuable book." --The New York Times Book Review "BERGNER'S PROSE IS POWERFUL, AT ONCE JOURNALISTIC AND PERSONAL. HE ROMANTICIZES NEITHER THE PRISONERS NOR THEIR KEEPERS." --USA Today "ASTONISHING . . . REMARKABLE . . . BREATHLESS STORYTELLING." --The San Diego Union-Tribune "COMPELLING . . . A HARROWING YET HUMANE BOOK." --The New York Times "ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING BOOKS PUBLISHED IN YEARS." --LARRY KING From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal365/.66
SynopsisGod of the Rodeo is a moving profile of a group of convicts who compete in the inmate rodeo at Louisiana's Angola prison, illuminating the longing for redemption among even the most desperate men in the most brutal conditions.
LC Classification NumberHV9475.L22L635 1998
