In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison Reprint Edition-nurbook

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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison Reprint Edition

Author(s): Jack Henry Abbott (Author)

Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: Jan. 2 1991
Edition: Reprint
Language: English
Print length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0679732373
ISBN-13: 9780679732372

Book Description

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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From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

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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