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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison
In the Belly of the Beast Letters from Prison Author:Jack Henry Abbott 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. In the Belly of the Beast brings together Abbott's... more » 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; confinement, the uses and abuses of sex and drugs in prison; the doomed relationship between inmate and guard; and the complex behavior of prisoners among themselves.« less