IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST

by Abbott, Jack Henry

First edition

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Book desription: New York: Random House, 1981. Hardcover First edition Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket The controversial bestseller, a memoir of his time spent incarcerated (beginning at age nine), much of it in solitary confinement. With an introduction by Norman Mailer who helped to secure his release. Abbott began a correspondence with Mailer who was writing The Executioner's Song. Mailer got some of Abbott's letters published in the prestigious New York Review of Books leading to publication of Abbott's first book. Not long after, having killed a restaurant worker, he returned to prison where he died reportedly a suicide in 2002. An internal review copy slip laid in.

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