Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song

This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence...
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Author: Jerome Loving
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Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song by Loving, Jerome

Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song

BD$52.63

Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song

BD$52.63
Author: Jerome Loving
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.

Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a talented writer who deserved another chance at freedom. With letters of support from Mailer and other literary elites of the day, Abbott was released on parole in 1981.

With Mailer's help, Abbott quickly became the literary "it boy" of New York City. But in a shocking turn of events, the day before a rave review of Abbott's book, In the Belly of the Beast, appeared in The New York Times, Abbott murdered a New York City waiter and fled to Mexico. Eerily, like Gary Gilmore in Mailer's true-life novel, Abbott killed within six weeks of his release from prison.

Now Jerome Loving explores the history of two of the most infamous books of the past 50 years, a fascinating story that has never before been told.

Author: Jerome Loving
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: 02/21/2017
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250106995


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2016
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2016
Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 28
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 98

About the Author
JEROME LOVING is the Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Loving has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin and as a Fulbright Scholar at Leningrad State University.


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