On the Yard by Braly, Malcolm

On the Yard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322967)

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On the Yard by Braly, Malcolm

On the Yard

$18.95
On the Yard by Braly, Malcolm

On the Yard

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, On the Yard presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.

Author: Malcolm Braly
ISBN-10: 094032296X
ISBN-13: 9780940322967
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2002
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.04w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 01/28/2002 pg. 273
Publishers Weekly 01/28/2002
By Malcolm Braly
By Malcolm Braly
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Malcolm Braly (1925-1980) was born in Portland, Oregon. Abandoned by his parents, Braly lived between foster homes and institutions for delinquent children, and by the time he was forty had spent nearly seventeen years in prison for burglary, serving time at Nevada State Prison, San Quentin, and Folsom State Prison. He wrote three novels behind bars, Felony Tank (1961), Shake Him Till He Rattles (1963), and It's Cold Out There(1966), and upon his release in 1965 began to work on On the Yard. When prison authorities learned of the book they threatened to revoke his parole, and he was forced to complete it in secret. Published in 1967, after Braly's parole had expired, On the Yard received wide acclaim. It was followed by his autobiography, False Starts: A Memoir of San Quentin and Other Prisons (1976), and a final work of fiction, The Protector(1979). Malcolm Braly enjoyed fifteen years of freedom before his death in a car accident at age fifty-four.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of seven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude. He lives in Brooklyn and in Maine.

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