Girl in the Arena : : a Novel Containing Intense Prolonged Sequences of Disaster and Peril
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In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.
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Good submitted by zmclaugh on July 25, 2018, 2:15pm An intense book about a society that readily accepts violence. It reminded me of The Hunger Games.
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New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 324 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9781599903729
1599903725
SUBJECTS
Gladiators -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Fame -- Fiction.
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Family life -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- Fiction.