In The Belly of The Beast: Letters From Prison
Jack Henry Abbott
ISBN 10: 0394708229 ISBN 13: 9780394708225
Published by Vintage Books, 1982
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Synopsis:
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.
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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Bibliographic Details
Title: In The Belly of The Beast: Letters From ...
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good