Wilbert Rideau

In the Place of Justice (eBook, ePUB)

A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession.

When we meet Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality, sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot. Yet Rideau breaks through all this and finds hope and meaning, becoming editor of the prison magazine, going on to win national journalism awards.

Full of gritty realism and potent in its evocation of a life condemned, Rideau goes far beyond the traditional prison memoir and reveals an emotionally wrought and magical conclusion to his forty-four years in prison.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847654649
• Artikelnr.: 38431549

Autorenporträt

Wilbert Rideau has won many journalism awards. He was editor of theAngolite, the first prison publication to be nominated for a National Magazine Award. It was nominated seven times under his editorship. He also co-directed the documentary The Farm which was nominated for an Oscar. He now lives in Louisiana.