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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott
Publisher: Vintage
Page Count: 192pp
Size: 5.25 x 8
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: January 2, 1991
ISBN: 978-0679732372