Lights Out in the Reptile House - Softcover

Shepard, Jim

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9780380714131: Lights Out in the Reptile House

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380714132 ISBN 13: 9780380714131

Publisher: Avon Books, 1991

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Albert Delp, an older herpetologist, shapes Karel Roeder's fascination with snakes and lizards; Leda, his enigmatic girlfriend, leads him ever deeper into proscribed areas of thought and speech.

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From Library Journal:

Taking a fresh, horrifying look at man's inhumanity to man, the author of Flights (LJ 8/83) and Paper Doll ( LJ 11/15/86) has produced a winner. His new coming-of-age novel features Karel Roeder, a 15-year-old who is growing up in a totalitarian state in an unidentified time and place. Big Brother is truly watching Karel and his inscrutable girlfriend Leda, as they are influenced by the mounting terror of their dictatorial government, a terror that overwhelms their lives and brings about their ultimate loss of innocence. The reptile house is in the zoo where Karel works, an Eden-like haven which is destroyed in an unrelenting barrage of Sturm und Drang . Recommended for adult and young adult collections.
- Dean Willms, Fort Collins P.L., Col.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Karel Roeder, an inconspicuous member of a contemporary police state, faces danger after government forces claim the zoo where he works, his father disappears and his love interest becomes intolerant of the repressive regime. "Gruesome scenes of physical torture add credibility to this nightmarish, politically charged novel in the tradition of George Orwell's 1984 ," said PW.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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