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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

by Jack Henry Abbott

Other authors: Norman Mailer (Introduction)

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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.… (more)

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365.44092Social sciences › Social problems & social services › Penal & related institutions › Institutions for specific types of inmates › Men in Prison

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HV9468.A22Social sciences › Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology › Social pathology. Social and public welfare. › Criminal justice administration › Penology. Prisons. Corrections › By region or country

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