A Long Day in a Short Life (Alma Classics, 504)

Maltz, Albert

ISBN 10: 0714550639 / ISBN 13: 9780714550633

Published by Calder Publications, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Long Day in a Short Life (Alma Classics, 504)
• Publisher: Calder Publications
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714550639
• ISBN 13: 9780714550633
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Only edition in print

As time ticks along with indifference, the inmates of the Washington District Jail drag on their daily routine behind bars. Innocent at their birth, these frail creatures who have lost their way now spend their lives shut out of society, deprived of all freedom, with little prospect of being readmitted into the human fold.

Each prisoner has a story: some of them are charged with crimes of assault, murder and manslaughter, others of forgery, robbery and larceny – others still are not guilty of anything other than having been born to certain parents at a certain time in a certain country. A Long Day in a Short Life – Maltz's first novel to be published in the UK – is a powerful indictment of the penal system and a strong reminder about the underlying humanity of each individual.

About the Author

Albert Maltz (1908–85) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He won the O. Henry Award twice. His novel The Cross and the Arrow about the German resistance to the Nazi Regime was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during WWII. He worked on a series of films including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the mccarthyism era. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and A Long Day in a Short Life.