{"product_id":"rash-9780689868016","title":"Rash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Of course  without people like us Marstens  there wouldnt be anybody to do the manual labor that makes this country run. Without penal workers  who would work the production lines  or pick the melons and peaches  or maintain the streets and parks and public lavatories? Our economy depends on prison labor. Without it everybody would have to work -- whether they wanted to or not.\"  In the late twenty-first century Bo Marsten is unjustly accused of a causing a rash that plagues his entire high school. He loses it  and as a result  hes sentenced to work in the Canadian tundra  at a pizza factory thats surrounded by hungry polar bears. Bo finds prison life to be both boring and dangerous  but its nothing compared to what happens when he starts playing on the factorys highly illegal football team. In the meantime  Bork  an artificial intelligence that Bo created for a science project  tracks Bo down in prison. Bork has spun out of control and seems to be operating on his own. He offers to get Bos sentence shortened  but can Bo trust him? And now that Bo has been crushing skulls on the field  will he be able to go back to his old  highly regulated life?  Pete Hautman takes a satirical look at an antiseptic future in this darkly comic mystery\/adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45924215357493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0689868014","price":63.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780689868016.jpg?v=1787664495","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rash-9780689868016","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}