Prison Writings in 20th-Century America
Original title: Prison Writing in 20th-Century America
earliest edition we have, 1998 Penguin Books, 1998 368 pages
This unique collection dramatizes the history of the modern American prison and offers a harrowing vision of prison life in America today. H. Bruce Franklin, a leading authority on American prison writing, has gathered more than sixty selections from some of the most powerful works - memoirs, stories, novels, poemswritten in the last hundred years.
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