God of the Rodeo

Traces a year in the lives of six convicts at Louisiana's most fearsome maximum security prison and reveals both the brutality of their lives and their human emotions as they compete in the annual prison rodeo.

First sentence: WHEN HE HAD FINISHED WORK-BUILDING FENCE or penning cattle or castrating bull calves with a knife supplied by his boss on the prison farm-Johnny Brooks lingered in the saddle shed.

Year

1998

Language

English

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Editions

3

Pages

304

ISBN

9780345435538

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