In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison
New York: Random House, (1981).
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Norman Mailer. Fine in trifle worn, near fine dust jacket with a tiny interior stain and bit of faint interior tanning, neither of which show through. Abbott, a lifelong convict, presents his bleak view of the prison system. He was released from prison shortly after publication, after a campaign waged by the literati, particularly Mailer. Soon thereafter he stabbed a waiter to death and returned to prison, where he died in 2002.
Item #585452
ISBN: 0394518586
