In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison ( a visionary book in prison literature)

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison ( a visionary book in prison literature)

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Arrow Books, 1982, softcover, 166 pages, conditioN; very good.

A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. This is a 37 year old man's account of 25 years behind bars.

Jack Henry Abbott (1944   2002) was an American criminal and author. With a long history of criminal convictions, Abbott's writing concerning his life and experiences was lauded by a number of well-known literary critics, including author Norman Mailer. Due partly to lobbying by Mailer and others on Abbott's behalf, Abbott was released from prison in 1981 where he was serving sentences for forgery, manslaughter, and bank robbery. Abbott's memoir In the Belly of the Beast was published with positive reviews soon after his release. Six weeks after being paroled from prison, Abbott stabbed and killed a waiter outside a New York City cafe. Abbott was convicted and sent back to prison, where he killed himself in 2002.

Abbott described his life as being a "state-raised convict", spending much of his life since age 12 in confinement in state facilities, including solitary confinement. He wrote that because of confinement with other violent offenders from whom he could not escape, he developed a subjective perspective that every encounter was potentially threatening.
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