Preview of The Neon Wilderness Summary:

Because of this minimizing environment, most denizens of The Neon Wilderness are crippled, flawed, or otherwise diminished, sometimes only emotionally, but usually physically as well. Presented frequently as beaten or crouching, they lack some human capacity for feeling or intimacy. The system offers essentially two means of escape, either through the victimization of others or victimization of the self, expressed in the motifs of physical abuse-the beaten women and the prize...