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    Jack and Norman

    A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Narrated by Brandon Pollock ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a ... Read more

    $21.51 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Jack and Norman

    A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song"

    by Jerome Loving ...
    This is the story of an author and his apprentice. It is the story of literary influence and tragedy. It is also the story of incarceration in America.Norman Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, his novel about condemned killer Gary Gilmore, when he struck up a correspondence with Jack Henry Abbott, Federal Prisoner 87098-132. Over time, Abbott convinced the famous author that he was a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After the Good War

    A Vietnam Memoir

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Series series Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    The fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War—more than fifty years later, memories are already fading. Beginning in the mid-1950s with the Republic of South Vietnam in a civil war with North Vietnam over communism, the United States’ military commitment rose to half a million soldiers, airmen, and sailors. Among them was Jerome Loving, a twenty-four-year-old college graduate. Over ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence. Tracing the parallel careers of Emerson and Whitman, the author shows how each served his literary apprenticeship, moved beyond his vocation, prospered, and, finally, declined in his literary achievements. In both cases, Loving follows his subject from vision to wisdom ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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