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Language: English
Published by Vintage, 1991
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- Title
- In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
- Author
- Abbott, Jack Henry
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679732373
- ISBN 13
- 9780679732372
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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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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