On the yard
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Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveonyard00bral
- ISBN-100140044558
- ISBN-139780140044553
- Library of Congress Control Number77002391
- Better World Books9780140044553
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL4536436M
Classifications
- DDC813/.5/4
- LCCPZ4.B8147 On8
- LCCPS3552.R28 On8
Description
A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, On the Yard presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.
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Genres
- Fiction
Other Editions
- On the yard
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