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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.1092 EAN: 9780312280765 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0312280769 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: August 18, 2001 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Studio: St. Martin's Griffin Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time. From smoking a joint in the gas chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife connected to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming in the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker delivers a memoir as colorful as any of his novels and as compelling as the life he's lead. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting but stiltedI have read all of Edward Bunker's books and they are a lot like this book. The storyline is dark and brutal, very honest and hard, the author takes you on a trip that is very readable for a while but then (around the halfway mark) the books tend to fade to monotony and a certain sameness. In this book, we get the chance to read about Bunker's life. I am not sure how much of it is fact and how much is fiction, but it is a brutal life. Bunker was not a person to be admired in the way ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent and thought-provoking bookThis is an incredible true story, about second (and third and even fourth) chances, and prove that it's never too late for someone to change their life. Today, there are thousands of kids just like Edward Bunker, and there are fewer ways for them to find a second chance, a way out of a life of crime. The network of boys' homes, military and boarding schools described by Bunker today only exist for the ultra wealthy and the privileged classes in California. Even though that ... Read More Rating: - Great, Have a tissue handyThe Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker is very touching. We sent a copy to our grandson in prison for getting into fights in bars every time he is released from prison. He was so taken with the material that he now attends AAA and has started going to Church. He also let several other inmates read it and they too are working on changing their ways. Sincerely, Ol'wdb7777 Rating:  - street and book smartBunker puts you right into the prison life in this book. Although at times it seems a little rushed if not abrupt, this is a good page-turner and not too much is left to the imagination. It's a good memoir that at times can make you feel as nervous, angry or happy as the author felt. Rating: - great autobiography.unlike the psychopathic rantings that fill jack henry abbott's "in the belly of the beast," this book about the life of a man who rose from a life of crime to the life of a successful writer is without self-pity, without self-justification. and, also unlike "in the belly of the beast," it is great writing with a great narrative drive. a story is built out of mr bunker's life, in clear direct prose, free of psychiatric babble. this is a fantastic book that deserves a wide readership. so go ahead and ... Read More 
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