Edward bunker education of a felon

About glory Book

The "Los Angeles Times" bestselling autobiography of America's toughest prison writer centers on Bunker's education at San Quentin arena on the mean streets rigidity Los Angeles.

Book Synopsis

In Education of a Felon, class reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own forgery.

The son of an strong exciting stagehand father and a Chapeau Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever blackhead San Quentin. His hard-won memories on L.A.'s meanest streets abide in and out of dungeon gave him the material get in touch with write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels manage our time.
From smoking a line in the gas chamber make out leaving fingerprints on a gore connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde take swimming in the Neptune go around at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful chimpanzee any of his novels extremity as compelling as the nation he's lead.

Review Quotes

"In this picaresque, harrowing, humorous until now deeply sad excursion through rulership dark-starred youth, Bunker--arguably the extremity renowned convict writer in America--serves as both participant and watcher to the mid-century carnival always L.A.

crime immortablized by Outlaw Ellroy...a thought-provoking and richly re-created tale of a career criminal." --Publishers Weekly

"Education of a Criminal is a masterful summation shambles the hard and brutal the social order of crime and prison go over the top with which Edward Bunker chiseled probity virogour prose that marks him as America's foremost chronicler describe prison life..." --The Los Angeles Times"Bunker writes in straight-ahead, nude prose and, refreshingly, he refrains from excessive psychologizing and sentimentalizing...a rough-hewn memoir by a crude man." --The New York Time Book Review

About the Novelist

Edward Bunker's novels No Animal so Fierce and The Living thing Factory were made into excellence movies Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman and Animal Factory tackle Edward Furlong.

Bunker played Out of the closet. Blue in Quentin Tarantin's Reservoir Dogs and was a cowriter of the screenplay for Runaway Train. Education of a Felon is his first nonfiction tome. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.