Jack and Norman by Jerome Loving
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.Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Jerome Love is the author of several volumes, including Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (California, 1999), Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993), and Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Floor (1986). He edited Frank Norris' McTeague (1995), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1990), and George Washington Whitman's Civil War Writings (1975).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250106995 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250106990 |
| Title | Jack and Norman |
| Author | Jerome Loving |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2017-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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