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Education of a Felon - by Edward Bunker (Paperback)

Education of a Felon - by  Edward Bunker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The "Los Angeles Times" bestselling autobiography of America's toughest prison writer centers on Bunker's education at San Quentin and on the mean streets of Los Angeles.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In E<i>ducation of a Felon</i>, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time.<br>From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming in the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful as any of his novels and as compelling as the life he's lead.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"In this picaresque, harrowing, humorous yet deeply sad excursion through his dark-starred youth, Bunker--arguably the most renowned convict writer in America--serves as both participant and witness to the mid-century carnival of L.A. crime immortablized by James Ellroy...a thought-provoking and richly re-created tale of a career criminal." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>"Education of a Felon is a masterful summation of the hard and brutal life of crime and prison from which Edward Bunker chiseled the virogour prose that marks him as America's foremost chronicler of prison life..." --<i>The Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Bunker writes in straight-ahead, unadorned prose and, refreshingly, he refrains from excessive psychologizing and sentimentalizing...a rough-hewn memoir by a rough-hewn man." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Edward Bunker's</b> novels No<i> Beast so Fierce</i> and T<i>he Animal Factory</i> were made into the movies<i> Straight Time</i> with Dustin Hoffman and <i>Animal Factory</i> with Edward Furlong. Bunker played Mr. Blue in Quentin Tarantin's <i>Reservoir Dogs </i>and was a cowriter of the screenplay for <i>Runaway Train</i>. <i>Education of a Felon</i> is his first nonfiction book. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.</p>

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