Books about jailbirds/parolees …..
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darryl-tahirali — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 02:40 PM)
Jailbird
, Kurt Vonnegut
Still Life with Woodpecker
, Tom Robbins (Bernard is more outlaw, but he's been in stir: "In jail, a cigarette is a friend.")
The Grapes of Wrath
, John Steinbeck (Opens with Tom Joad being released from McAlester Prison)
The Gulag Archipelago
, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (NF)
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michael1951 — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 10:22 PM)
No mention yet of Sirius Black?
Victor Hugo,
Les Misérables
Alexandre Dumas père,
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edward Everett Hale,
The Man Without a Country
(on board ship)
Oscar Wilde,
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Fyodor Dostoevsky,
The House of the Dead
Truman Capote,
In Cold Blood
Norman Mailer,
The Executioner's Songhttp://librarything.com/profile/CurrerBell -
michael1951 — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 11:01 AM)
Ooooh, for non-fiction,
Gideon's Trumpet
by Anthony Lewis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Earl_Gideon
was the little schlepp who filed a petition with the United States Supreme Court (
Gideon v. Wainwright
, opinion 1963) challenging Florida's refusal to appoint counsel in criminal cases for indigents except in "special circumstances." Won an Edgar for criminal non-fiction and made into a TV-movie with Henry Fonda in 1980.http://librarything.com/profile/CurrerBell -
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