A Prison Diary (Three-Volume Set) (SIGNED)
Edition: First Editions.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
The three volumes of A Prison Diary by Jeffrey Archer represent one of the most remarkable and candid pieces of autobiographical writing to emerge from the British public life in the early 2000s. Archer — novelist, politician, and life peer — began writing the series after being convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001 and sentenced to four years in prison, and the books are drawn directly from the diaries he kept throughout his incarceration. The first volume, cheekily credited on the cover not to "Jeffrey Archer" but to FF 8282 — his prisoner number — is subtitled Belmarsh: Hell, and covers his harrowing early weeks in one of Britain's most notorious high-security prisons, where he mixed with violent and dangerous criminals in deeply grim conditions. The second volume, Purgatory, follows his transfer to Wayland Prison in Norfolk, a medium-security establishment where life becomes somewhat more bearable, and where Archer begins to find a degree of routine, even purpose, helping fellow inmates with reading and writing. The third and final volume, Heaven, recounts his time at North Sea Camp, an open prison in Lincolnshire, where relative freedom and the prospect of release begin to feel tangible — and where his characteristic optimism, wit, and determination reassert themselves most strongly. Taken together, the three volumes offer a vivid, often humorous, sometimes shocking insider account of the British prison system, and whatever one thinks of Archer's crimes or character, the diaries remain a compelling and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of life behind bars.
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Description
Edition: First Editions.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
The three volumes of A Prison Diary by Jeffrey Archer represent one of the most remarkable and candid pieces of autobiographical writing to emerge from the British public life in the early 2000s. Archer — novelist, politician, and life peer — began writing the series after being convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001 and sentenced to four years in prison, and the books are drawn directly from the diaries he kept throughout his incarceration. The first volume, cheekily credited on the cover not to "Jeffrey Archer" but to FF 8282 — his prisoner number — is subtitled Belmarsh: Hell, and covers his harrowing early weeks in one of Britain's most notorious high-security prisons, where he mixed with violent and dangerous criminals in deeply grim conditions. The second volume, Purgatory, follows his transfer to Wayland Prison in Norfolk, a medium-security establishment where life becomes somewhat more bearable, and where Archer begins to find a degree of routine, even purpose, helping fellow inmates with reading and writing. The third and final volume, Heaven, recounts his time at North Sea Camp, an open prison in Lincolnshire, where relative freedom and the prospect of release begin to feel tangible — and where his characteristic optimism, wit, and determination reassert themselves most strongly. Taken together, the three volumes offer a vivid, often humorous, sometimes shocking insider account of the British prison system, and whatever one thinks of Archer's crimes or character, the diaries remain a compelling and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of life behind bars.
