Holes | Setting
Holes is set at Camp Green Lake, in Green Lake, Texas. Most of the action happens now or in the recent past; the novel is set recently enough for the camp records to be computerized and for characters to speak casually of “cyberspace.” Camp Green Lake’s name falls somewhere between a joke and a curse. Nothing is green there, and there is no lake. It is a full-blown desert, one where the average temperature in the shade is 95 degrees. The isolation—the boys arrive there via a nine-hour bus ride—and temperature combine to make it a perfect prison. There is nowhere they...
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