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The Animal Factory by Edward Bunker

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ISBN: 1842430815
Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178x111mm)
Extent: 208pp

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker's blistering autobiography Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade is also available from No Exit Press.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag", Earl Copen. Copen is well in with the White Brotherhood just one of the many White, Black and Chicano gangs in constant brutal conflict in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is tested by Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads to an act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote chance of escape.

Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison life where life is cheap and death by shiv awaits anyone looking the wrong way with a great literary quality and at a merciless pace that never falters and with the realism and knowledge gained from spending over 25 years in prison.


The Animal Factory - the film

The Animal Factory, directed by Steve Buscemi, a.k.a. Mr Pink in Reservoir Dogs, and with a screenplay by Edward Bunker himself, has already been shown at the Sundance Film Festival and appeared in the 44th Regus London Film Festival at the beginning of November, 2000.

There is a good review by Chris Wiegand on kamera.co.uk, and for the most fulsome treatment have a look at this review from Variety, where they provide three pages of analysis.

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RELATED LINKS

Animal Factory
The Video (U.S. NTSC format)

Animal Factory
The DVD (U.S. NTSC format)

Edward Bunker Main Page

Interview in RealAudio format
RTÉ Online April 2001

Interview
RTE interview - March 2001

Interview
lifeforkbottleandtalk
interview

Retrospective (Richmond Review)

Author interview (Richmond Review)

Author Interview (Crime Time Online)

Author Feature (Crime Time Online)

Biography Bizarre Magazine

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