<p>On the flap, "On the Yard is a mosaic novel which gives the reader an insight into the life of a large prison."</p>

On the Yard

Literature & Fiction

Malcolm Braly

Contemporary

Little. Brown and Company

<p>A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforgettable picture of the complex and frightening world of the penitentiary. At its center are the violently intertwined stories of Chilly Willy, in trouble with the law from his earliest years and now the head of the prison's flourishing black market in drugs and sex, and of Paul, wracked with guilt for the murder of his wife and desperate for some kind of redemption. At once brutal and tender, clear-eyed and rueful, On the Yard presents the penitentiary not as an exotic location, an exception to everyday reality, but as an ordinary place, one every reader will recognize, American to the core.</p>

On the Yard (New York Review Books Classics)

Biographies & Memoirs

NYRB Classics

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