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On the Yard
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Artikel-Nr:
9780940322967
Veröffentl:
2002
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2002
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Malcolm Braly
Gewicht:
367 g
Format:
206x128x25 mm
Serie:
Ign Departement Maps
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Malcolm Braly; Introduction by Jonathan Lethem
A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, On the Yard presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.