In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

Abbott, Jack Henry

ISBN 10 : 0679732373 ISBN 13 : 9780679732372

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1991

Synopsis

Book by Abbott Jack Henry

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679732373
• ISBN 13: 9780679732372
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 192