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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Loving, Jerome, 1941- author.     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- author.       by title:      Jack and Norman : a ...         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- author. New York : Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2017. 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 (hardcover) : 1250106990 (hardcover) Description:  xiv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 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..."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 813.54 Lo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 813.54 Loving Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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