Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)

Bell Gale Chevigny

ISBN 10: 1559705140 / ISBN 13: 9781559705141

Published by Arcade Publishing, 2000

About this Item

Very good overall - immediate despatch from the UK 6 days a week EXTRA SHIPPING WILL BE REQUESTED OUTSIDE OF THE UK.

Seller Inventory # 005725

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing (A PEN American Center Prize Anthology)
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1559705140
• ISBN 13: 9781559705141
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

"Doing Time," For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself, and somehow retaining one's humanity.
For the last quarter century the prestigious writers' organization PEN has sponsored a contest for writers behind bars to help prisoners face these challenges. The contest honors the best short stories, plays, essays, and poems among hundreds submitted annually by men and women nationwide. Bell Chevigny, a writer herself and a former prison teacher, has selected the best of these to create Doing Time - a timely, beautiful, sometimes devastating, but vital work, which demonstrates resoundingly that prison writing is a vibrant branch of American literature.

About the Author

"Bell Gale Chevigny is professor emeritus of literature at Purchase College, SUNY, and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow. She has written for the Nation and DoubleTake and other journals. Her books include The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings and Chloe and Olivia, a novel."