Education of a Felon: A Memoir - Hardcover

Bunker, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031225315X ISBN 13: 9780312253158

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2000

Synopsis

In Education of a Felon, 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.
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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Bunker is a true original of American letters." -James Ellroy
"Bunker is among the tiny band of American writers whose work possesses integrity, craftsmanship and moral passion." -William Styron

About the Author:

"Bunker shoots straight--his direct and transparent prose captures the primacy of violence that defines life in the slammer...Bunker clearly articulates the code of prison life and the pathology of the career criminal in raw, muscular prose."--Kirkus Reviews

"The best first-person crime novel I've ever read."--Quentin Tarantino on NO BEAST SO FIERCE

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 031225315X
• ISBN 13: 9780312253158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272