In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison - Softcover

Abbott, Jack Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679732373 ISBN 13: 9780679732372

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991

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A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare.

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Born in Michigan in 1944, Jack Henry Abbott spent most of his childhood in foster care and his teen years in various detention centers. While serving a long sentence for killing a fellow inmate, he wrote to Norman Mailer and offered to write a truthful depiction of life in prison. Mailer agreed, and with his help Abbott published In the Belly of the Beast. Abbott died in prison in 2002.

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A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. This is a 37 year old man's account of 25 years behind bars.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679732373
• ISBN 13: 9780679732372
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar