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Memos from Purgatory is Harlan Ellison's account of his experience with juvenile gangs when he joined one to research them for his first novel, Web of the City. It also describes the author's experience during an overnight stay in jail.
- 160
- Harlan Ellison
- Regency
- 1961
Memo from Purgatory: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Alfred Hitchcock, James Caan, Lynn Loring, Walter Koenig. Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Joseph Pevney
- 1964-12-21
Synopsis. Jay is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates the violent gang "The Barons." He wins the trust of the gang's leader Tiger, but trouble arises when Filene, Tiger's girlfriend, falls in love with Jay.
In the mid-fifties, Harlan Ellison--kicked out of college and hungry to write--went to New York to start his writing career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades and zip guns made from car radio antennas.
- (457)
- Mass Market Paperback
Memos from Purgatory is an unflinching, up-close-and-personal examination of street gangs and the callous NYC legal system of the times. It was one of Harlan Ellison’s bestselling books for nearly 25 years. While the material is obviously dated, the color of Ellison’s honest and raw narrative has not faded.
Memos from Purgatory. ebook. By Harlan Ellison. Harlan Ellison. Open Road Media. Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Search for a digital library with this title. Search by city, ZIP code, or library name. Learn more about precise location detection. Title found at these libraries: Sorry, no libraries found.
From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama. Hemingway said, “A man should never write what he doesn’t know.”
