02305cam a2200349 i 4500 1144162750 TxAuBib 20161102120000.0 150504s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015016476 9780385540353 0385540353 (OCoLC)900030923 TxAuBib rda Atwood, Margaret. The heart goes last [Hard Cover] / Margaret Atwood. First American edition. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, [2015] ℗2015. xii, 308 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier One of the Best Books of the Year: The Boston Globe Stan and Charmaine, a young urban couple, have been hit by job loss and bankruptcy in the midst of a nationwide economic collapse. Forced to live in their third-hand Honda, where they are vulnerable to roving gangs, they think the gated community of Consilience may be the answer to their prayers. If they sign a life contract, they’ll get a job and a lovely house . . . for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents must leave their homes and serve as inmates in the Positron prison system. At first, this seems worth it: they will have a roof over their heads and food on the table. But when a series of troubling events unfolds, Positron begins to look less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. The Heart Goes Last is a vivid, urgent vision of development and decay, freedom and surveillance, struggle and hope—and the timeless workings of the human heart. During the midst of an economic and social collapse Stan and Charmaine live in their car. They decided that the Positron Project is the best solution. For six months they live in a house then they become inmates at the prison. It works until Charmaine falls for another man, and series of troubling events put Stan’s life in danger. 20161102. Married people Fiction. Homelessness Fiction. Unemployment Fiction. Prisons Fiction. TXLMP