Life

By Zeno,

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No dust jacket but a very nice book, has former owner name inside cover but free of any other markings, clean and fresh.


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1 author picked Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Bar fights are among the more banal of crimes, but when murder results the criminal law justly responds with severity.

Under the pseudonym of "Zeno" the author (Gerald La Marque) gives an account of almost a decade in English prisons as an "ordinary" lifer. There is no self-pity, instead an acknowledgement of the justness of his punishment and a custodial life lived with stoical acceptance.

The book communicates with disturbing realism.

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