Review of The Red Rose Rages Ardys DeLu Duchamp, L. Timmel. The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding): A Short Novel. Conversation Pieces, Volume 10. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2005. ISBN 1-933500-02-6. 166pp. $9.00.
This book, part of the Aqueduct series called "Conversation Pieces," portrays the particular work experience of a mental health/prison professional in an unpleasantly familiar dystopia. I would say that the reading level is appropriate for undergraduate college students.
This book at 166 pages is small but intense in its description of a society's penal/psychiatric system. The system is also quite privatized. It would be more accurate to say that this penal/psychiatric system is corporatized. ...