TURNTABLE LAB

the lab review

Upton Sinclair at Lab? Sure, why not. Shit is getting mad erudite up here! This deluxe edition from Penguin Classics is printed on quality paper and features a new cover from comic artist Charles Burns (Black Hole, Dog Boy). The Jungle is Sinclair's 1906 novel which exposed "the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the ninteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream." I'm not gonna front - I never made it through this one, but if it's still being published after 100 years, it's probably worth reading. 388 pages.

reviewed by Chris Lemon-Red 03/10/2008

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