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03032aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 DA9E17F22BEA11ECAE902C522AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211013010022 007 tb 008 211007t20212021nyu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0063117487 020 $a 9780063117488 035 $a (OCoLC)1273732878 040 $a OJ4 $b eng $e rda $c OJ4 $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a 813.6 M1347 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Mattson, James Han, $e author. 245 10 $a Reprieve : $b a novel / $c James Han Mattson. 250 $a First Harper Large Print edition. 264 1 $a [New York, N.Y.] : $b Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2021] 300 $a 537 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rdafs 520 $a A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room-a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, "reprieve," they'll win a substantial cash prize-a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house's long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who's been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character's journey unfurls and overlaps, deceits and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed-forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe. A startlingly soulful exploration of complicity and masquerade, Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism, and seamlessly threads together trial transcripts, evidence descriptions, and deeply layered individual narratives to present a chilling portrait of this tangled American life" 650 0 $a Escape room games $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Haunted houses (Amusements) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Horror fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221018011550.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211013010051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA9E17F22BEA11ECAE902C522AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search