Doing Time - Hardcover

Lawson, Jack N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1452039534 ISBN 13: 9781452039534

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

Doing Time is the compelling, true-to-life story of a young woman, Annabel Lee, who is wrongly convicted and imprisoned for a crime committed by her wayward husband. Beginning before her birth, the story opens in the rural American South of the1950s, and tracks the brutal relationship into which Annabel Lee is born. As she grows, Annabel Lee cannot escape the cycle of violence and abuse that surrounds her. Naively, she elopes with her teenaged lover in the vain hope for an escape from her cruel past, only to discover that she has entered upon an equally harrowing stint in a women's prison. In the unlikely fellowship behind bars, and through her relationships with inmates, staff and particularly the prison's chaplain, Annabel Lee courageously moves from the scarred existence as a victim to the life of a survivor. Filled with the local color of life in rural North Carolina between the 1950s and 1970s, Doing Time is a poignantan-and at times humorous-story of multi-generational trauma and abuse, and the journey of the human spirit to healing and redemption.

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About the Author

Jack Lawson was born and raised in North Carolina. Educated at St. Andrews College, Duke University and Hebrew Union College, he has worked as a minister, prison chaplain, Hebrew Bible lecturer, community development worker and training officer. His previous publications have been in those fields, with his specialty being the area of Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. This is his first work of fiction. The author lives with his wife, a mental health specialist working with children and families, in Norfolk, England.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1452039534
• ISBN 13: 9781452039534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304