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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Broadway Books
Publication date
October 1, 2003
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780767909198
ISBN-10
0767909194
Dimensions
1 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight
0.32 lbs.
Original list price
$23.00
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Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice | Profiling Violent Crimes | A Clockwork Orange | Newjack | American Corrections | Education of a Felon | Inside | Fish | The Hot House
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A one-time suburban husband, father, and corporate planner describes his experiences in a Nevada penitentiary after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, profiling life in a small claustrophobic cell, the colorful and violent inmates of the prison, and the essential survival strategies he has had to learn. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A memoir of astonishing powerâthe true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.
It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming."
Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fishâs progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the bookâs climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstancesâa compound of bad luck and worse judgmentâled him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell.
Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to proseâand all of the events are real.
From the Hardcover edition.
It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming."
Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fishâs progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the bookâs climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstancesâa compound of bad luck and worse judgmentâled him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell.
Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to proseâand all of the events are real.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
from Broadway Books (February 1, 2002)
9780767909181 | details & prices | 397 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 2.00 lbs | List price $24.95
About: A one-time suburban husband, father, and corporate planner describes his experiences in a Nevada penitentiary after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
About: A one-time suburban husband, father, and corporate planner describes his experiences in a Nevada penitentiary after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Broadway Books (October 1, 2003)
9780767909198 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.32 lbs | List price $23.00
About: A one-time suburban husband, father, and corporate planner describes his experiences in a Nevada penitentiary after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, profiling life in a small claustrophobic cell, the colorful and violent inmates of the prison, and the essential survival strategies he has had to learn.
About: A one-time suburban husband, father, and corporate planner describes his experiences in a Nevada penitentiary after being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, profiling life in a small claustrophobic cell, the colorful and violent inmates of the prison, and the essential survival strategies he has had to learn.
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