In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From PrisonA 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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STATERAISED CONVICT | 3 |
VARIETIES OF PUNISHMENT | 23 |
THE HOLE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT | 43 |
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