Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing From the Pen Program

Author: Chevigny, Bell Gale

Publication:New York : Arcade Publishing, 1999-05-20

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition

Condition: Used: Very Good

Description: No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to boards and jacket, slight foxing to page ends; first edition, first printing; Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page; "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.

Ref#: 038995

Subject: General Fiction

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