House of Stairs Chapt 2B

Set in the future, the book records the connections of five sixteen-year-olds who are taken from state orphanages and placed in a strange building. The building, neither a prison nor a hospital, has no walls, no ceiling, and no floor: nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, with no perceivable edge. On one landing is a basin of running water that serves as a toilet, sink and drinking fountain; on another, a machine with lights that occasionally produces food. Without prior preparation or introduction, the five must learn to deal with the others' worlds apart personalities, the need of privacy, their clear helplessness, and the strange machine that only feeds them under gradually more exacting situation. Why are they there? Will they find a way out? Who built this strange massive maze of stairs and why? Listen and find out...

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