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About Item: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1981. Hard Cover. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the middle of writing The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer received a letter from a federal prisoner named Jack H. Abbott who wanted to warn him that very few people knew much about violence in prisons and who offered to clarify some aspects of Gary Gilmore's life. Mailer began to correspond with Abbott and made a startling literary discovery: the convict's direct, intense prose was decidedly powerful; his letters were extraordinary for their clarity, vividness and ferocity. In the Belly of the Beast, Mailer brings together Abbott's letters to Mailer, edited and arranged according to: Abbott's background as a "state-raised" convict; the bizarre forms of punishment practiced in American prisons; the experience of long-term solitary confinement; the uses and abuses of sex and drugs in prison; the doomed relationship between inmate and guard; the… Read More
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