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The Animal Factory | Edward Bunker Drawing on a lifetime`s experience of the sordid, horrifically violent world of America`s prisons, Edward Bunker`s novel The Animal Factory tells a tale of two convicts. Ronald Decker, guilty of a minor drug dealing charge, is put away in San Quentin. Earl Copen takes it upon himself to instruct the younger man in the brutal protocol of San Quentin and the strategies essential for survival. Their growing friendship is tested when Ron`s rejection of a homosexual advance by another con leads to an act of fatal violence, and they seize upon a remote chance of escape. The Animal Factory is the ultimate prison novel. Read review. |
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