A Few Kind Words And A Loaded Gun: The Autobiography Of A Career Criminal - Rilegato

Smith, Razor

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ISBN 10: 1556525710 ISBN 13: 9781556525711

Casa editrice: Chicago Review Pr, 2005

Riassunto

Brutal and violent, this tell-all is a personal account of the life of Razor Smith and the world in which he lived, where ruthlessness, viciousness, and savagery are prized and admired. In prison more than half of his life for assaults and armed robberies, Smith became confined in a peculiar kind of hell from which his only route of escape was to master the art of writing. His book shows us a face of crime not often encountered in run-of-the-mill true-crime books: a face as tender and intimate as a lover's, yet as frightening as a killer's. Powerfully written from beginning to end, this is an extraordinarily vivid account of how a kid from South London became a career criminal, a blistering indictment of a system that brutalized young offenders, and an unsentimental acknowledgment of the adrenaline-fueled thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating, and horrifying, it also reveals Smith as one of the most talented writers of his generation.

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L'autore:

Razor Smith has 58 criminal convictions and has spent most of his adult life in prison, where he taught himself to read and write, gaining an Honours Diploma from the London School of Journalism. He has received a number of awards for his writing and has contributed articles to the Big Issue, the Guardian, the Independent, Punch, the New Law Journal, and the New Statesman.

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Book by Smith Razor

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Chicago Review Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1556525710
• ISBN 13: 9781556525711
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 482