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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

    Also available as: eBook

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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

  • 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

    $31.99 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

    $34.99 CAD

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    by Donald H. Wolfe ...
    Marilyn Monroe's death has been shrouded in decades of deception, conspiracy, and lies. Donald H. Wolfe has written a startling portrait of the twentieth century's greatest film star that not only redefines her place in entertainment history but also reveals the secret conspiracy that surrounded her last days.In The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, Wolfe confirms that the tragic actress was a homicide ... Read more

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  • Scoundrel

    How a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free

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