In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679732372ISBN-10:679732373UPC:9780679732372Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Sociology, Personal Memoirs, PenologySize:7.98 x 5.28 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCYT7CG78J
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679732372ISBN-10:679732373UPC:9780679732372Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Sociology, Personal Memoirs, PenologySize:7.98 x 5.28 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCYT7CG78J
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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