@misc{bibcite_14381,
  keywords = {Male author, US author},
  author = {William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011)},
  title = {House of Stairs},
  abstract = {<p>Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze (\&quot;This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.\&quot;) in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.</p>},
  year = {1974},
  month = {01/1974},
  publisher = {E. P. Dutton},
  address = {New York},
  language = {eng},
}