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03566aam a2200433Ia 4500 001 A65D7E90220811E49404A1B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140812045350 006 a|||||||||||||| || 007 sd fsngnn|||eu 008 110930s2011 mdunnnn f n eng d 020 $a 1461825679 020 $a 9781461825678 028 03 $a C00009 $b Recorded Books 035 $a (OCoLC)755082845 040 $a GO9 $c GO9 $d OCP $d NSB $d IW5 $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3552.A49 $b L68 2011ab 100 1 $a Banks, Russell, $d 1940- 245 10 $a Lost memory of skin / $h [sound recording] $c by Russell Banks. 260 $a Prince Frederick, MD : $b Recorded Books, $c p2011. 300 $a 12 sound discs (13.75 hr.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Unabridged. 500 $a "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. 511 0 $a Narrated by Scott Shepherd. 520 $a This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of this morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor's motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man. When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision. In this novel the author examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. It probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassion, a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim. 650 0 $a Books on compact discs. 650 0 $a Sex offenders $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Ex-convicts $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Homeless persons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sociologists $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Shepherd, Scott. $4 nrt 710 2 $a Recorded Books, LLC. 941 $a 2 945 $a cda 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717022624.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20160602015302.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A65D7E90220811E49404A1B3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IW5Initiate Another SILO Locator Search