TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atwood,Margaret
TI  - The heart goes last
SN  - 9780804194914
AV  - FIC ATWO H43 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House Large Print
KW  - Spouses
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Homeless persons
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Regression (Civilization)
KW  - Large type books
KW  - FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Humorous
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lgcft
N1  - "A novel"--Cover; Originally published: 2015; This volume is formatted in large print
N2  - Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around--and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in ... for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled.
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