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100 1 $aDraper, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85120246
245 10 $aHadrian's walls /$cRobert Draper.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bKnopf,$c1999.
300 $a321 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThis debut novel is an intensely powerful story of imprisonment, both behind walls and within the personal confines of human relationships. Shepherdsville, East Texas, is a town defined - architecturally, financially, and socially - by its state penitentiaries, among them the bleak Hope Prison Farm. It's a town where virtually every inhabitant is either an inmate or a prison employee, a town where crime literally pays.
520 8 $aShepherdsville's two most famous citizens are Sonny Hope, its larger-than-life prison director, and Hadrian Coleman, its most notorious convict. Their friendship since boyhood has followed a pattern of mutual dependence, keeping them at once in collusion and on opposite sides of the law. At age fifteen, introspective and emotionally vulnerable, Hadrian killed a man and was sentenced to fifty years at Hope Farm. However, twenty years later, he achieves the unthinkable and escapes from the prison.
520 8 $aAfter years of life on the run, he's summoned back to Shepherdsville to receive a full governor's pardon secured by Sonny, who now runs the prison, and, by extension, the town. Hadrian knows that Sonny's motives are not entirely clean, that this is a favor that will require something in return. When the nature of that payment is finally made clear, he must determine who really owes what to whom and whether carrying out Sonny's demand will result in a lifetime spent in his power.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3554.R2398$iH34 1999