ANIMAL FACTORY, THE - Softcover

Eddie Bunker

3.91

1,510 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842430815 ISBN 13: 9781842430811

Publisher: NO EXIT PRESS, 2002

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Now a film directed by indie film star Steve Buscemi, THE ANIMAL FACTORY tells the story of Ronald Decker, who is put away in San Quentin on a minor drug dealing charge, where he is befriended by Earl Copen, member of the White Brotherhood, just one of the many race gangs that abound within prison walls. Bunker writes of the sordid, violent and lawless prison life with a great literary quality and the knowledge gained by spending over 25 years in prison. """"A gripping and harrowing read"""" - Daily Mail """"A classic"""" - Time Out

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Review:

"Edward Bunker is among the tiny band of American prisoner-writers whose work possesses integrity, craftsmanship, and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice."--William Styron

"Edward Bunker writes about the netherworld of society's outcasts with a passion and insight that comes from having lived life close to the bone."--"The Los Angeles Times"

"Mr. Bunker has written a raw, unromantic, naturalistic crime drama more lurid than anything the noiresque Chandlers or Hammetts ever dreamed up."--"The New York Times "on "Dog Eat Dog"

Edward Bunker is among the tiny band of American prisoner-writers whose work possesses integrity, craftsmanship, and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice. "William Styron"

Edward Bunker writes about the netherworld of society's outcasts with a passion and insight that comes from having lived life close to the bone. "The Los Angeles Times"

Mr. Bunker has written a raw, unromantic, naturalistic crime drama more lurid than anything the noiresque Chandlers or Hammetts ever dreamed up. "The New York Times on Dog Eat Dog""

"Edward Bunker is among the tiny band of American prisoner-writers whose work possesses integrity, craftsmanship, and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice." --William Styron

"Edward Bunker writes about the netherworld of society's outcasts with a passion and insight that comes from having lived life close to the bone." --The Los Angeles Times

"Mr. Bunker has written a raw, unromantic, naturalistic crime drama more lurid than anything the noiresque Chandlers or Hammetts ever dreamed up." --The New York Times on Dog Eat Dog

Synopsis:

Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag", Earl Copen. Copen is well in with the White Brotherhood just one of the many White, Black and Chicano gangs in constant brutal conflict in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is tested by Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads to an act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote chance of escape. Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison life where life is cheap and death by shiv awaits anyone looking the wrong way with a great literary quality and at a merciless pace that never falters and with the realism and knowledge gained from spending over 25 years in prison

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