Warden: Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out (SIGNED)

Jim Willett; Ron Rozelle

ISBN 10: 1931721505 / ISBN 13: 9781931721509

Published by Bright Sky Press, (Albany, Texas), 2004

About this Item

Hardcover book complete in its original dust jacket (unclipped). 24 cm. 232 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the author directly on the front loose end page. The book is in near fine condition. No other ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Light edge wear/bumping to the dust jacket. Uncommon signature.

Seller Inventory # 4413

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Warden: Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Bright Sky Press, (Albany, Texas)
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931721505
• ISBN 13: 9781931721509
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition, 1st printing.
• Condition: NF/NF
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Crime

About this title

Synopsis

The story of the author's thirty-year career in Texas prisons, from his first night as a shotgun-wielding guard to the last man he accompanied to the death chamber, Willett remembers not just the big events of his career but the small ones that give prison life its texture. In measured but powerful prose, he describes the efficient actions of the tie-down team, the prisoner's often meandering last words, and the way that he himself lifted his glasses from his nose to signal the executioner to start the IV flow.

About the Author

Jim Willett is director of the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas. He narrated the radio documentary Witness to an Execution, which aired on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and won a Peabody Award in 2000. Ron Rozelle teaches creative writing and his novels include A Place Apart, The Windows of Heaven, and Into That Good Night, which was a finalist for the PEN American West Creative Nonfiction Prize.