The Violence of Our Lives by Tony Parker

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The Violence of Our Lives by Tony Parker

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The latest book by Tony Parker (‘The Castier-Bresson of the tape recorder’) consisting interviews with eighteen American life-sentence prisoners (all but two convicted of murder) and complements Life After Life, his previous account of twelve British murders. The chapters read like ‘a fine collection of short stories’. Financial Times)

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The Violence of Our Lives by Tony Parker

Contains interviews with 18 life-sentence prisoners in America, who are regarded as dangerous and violent with no chance of release. There are also interviews with the relatives of the criminals - scarred forever, like the offenders, by the "violence of our lives". Among those interviewed were a man who spent three years on Death Row awaiting execution, and another who was strapped in the electric chair before being reprieved; a pastor of a revivalist church in the Deep South who became a born-gain fundamentalist while in prison; a former prostitute who murdered her pimp and set fire to his body; a woman lawyer who shot dead the drug dealer with whom she was living when she was an addict herself; a personnel manager now out of prison on parole after serving 17 years for a street-brawl stabbing; and many others, men and women, black and white, four of whom are regarded as so dangerous and violent that they are incarcerated in maximum security prisons with no chance of ever being released.
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ISBN 13 9780006382386
ISBN 10 000638238X
Title The Violence of Our Lives
Author Tony Parker
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1996-02-19
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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