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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Loving, Jerome, 1941-     Subjects     Mailer, Norman -- Friends and associates.     Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944-     Mailer, Norman. Executioner's song.     Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944- In the belly of the beast.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.     Murderers -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Loving, Jerome, 1941-       by title:      Jack and Norman : a ...       by call number:      813.54 L911j     Search the Web     Loving, Jerome, 1941-     Mailer, Norman -- Friends and associates.     Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944-     Mailer, Norman. Executioner's song.     Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944- In the belly of the beast.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.     Murderers -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

Jack and Norman : a state-raised convict and the legacy of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song / Jerome Loving. by Loving, Jerome, 1941- Thomas Dunne Books, c2017. Call #: 813.54 L911j Subjects Mailer, Norman -- Friends and associates.   Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944-   Mailer, Norman. Executioner's song.   Abbott, Jack Henry, 1944- In the belly of the beast.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Journalists -- United States -- Biography.   Prisoners -- United States -- Biography.   Murderers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781250106995 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xiv, 240 p., [8 ] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Gilmore in the Flesh -- Partners in Crime -- Eastern State Penitentiary -- Marion Federal Prison -- Raised in a Box -- The Prison Movement in the 1970s -- His Own Voice -- State-Raised Convict -- Gilmore in Texas -- The Executioner's Song: Circumstance, Substance, and Reception -- Utah State -- A Light at the End of the Tunnel -- No Paradiso -- In the Belly of the Beast: An Analysis and Autopsy -- Running -- The 60 Minutes Interview -- His Grandmother's Orchard -- Jack's Return. Summary:  "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 distinguished professor Jerome Loving explores the history of two of the most infamous books of the past 50 years..."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 L911j Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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