In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

Abbott, Jack Henry

ISBN 10: 0679732373 / ISBN 13: 9780679732372

Verlag: Vintage, 1991

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DBV.0679732373.G

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From ...
Verlag: Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good