A Few Kind Words And A Loaded Gun: The Autobiography Of A Career Criminal - Couverture rigide

Smith, Noel "Razor"

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ISBN 10 : 1556525710 ISBN 13 : 9781556525711

Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2005

Synopsis

Brutal and violent, this tell-all is a personal account of the life of Razor Smith and the world in which he lived, where ruthlessness, viciousness, and savagery are prized and admired. In prison more than half of his life for assaults and armed robberies, Smith became confined in a peculiar kind of hell from which his only route of escape was to master the art of writing. His book shows us a face of crime not often encountered in run-of-the-mill true-crime books: a face as tender and intimate as a lover's, yet as frightening as a killer's. Powerfully written from beginning to end, this is an extraordinarily vivid account of how a kid from South London became a career criminal, a blistering indictment of a system that brutalised young offenders, and an unsentimental acknowledgement of the adrenaline-fuelled thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating, and horrifying, it also reveals Smith as one of the most talented writers of his generation.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Noel 'Razor' Smith was born in London in 1960. He has 58 criminal convictions and has spent the greater portion of his adult life in prison. Whilst in prison he taught himself to read and write, gained an Honours Diploma from The London School of Journalism and an A-Level in Law. He has been awarded a number of Koestler awards for his writing and has contributed articles to the Independent, the Guardian, Punch, the Big Issue, the New Statesman and the New Law Journal. He is currently serving a life-sentence for armed robbery. A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is his first book.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted felon Noel 'Razor' Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal, it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly brutalized young offenders and a frank, unsentimental acknowledgement of the thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating and frightening by turns, it also reveals Razor Smith to be a remarkably talented writer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chicago Review Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1556525710
• ISBN 13: 9781556525711
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible