DEAD MAN WALKING

Prejean, Helen

ISBN 10: 0679403582 / ISBN 13: 9780679403586

Editore: Random House, New York, USA, 1993

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First American Edition, First Printing. (first impression) with 'First Edition' and number line from 2-9 as called for to the copyright page in a near fine Dust Jacket which is not price clipped. Signed, Dated to the title page by the author. [Helen Prejean August 1993], publicity information from the publisher laid in loosely. Codice articolo 013105

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Titolo: DEAD MAN WALKING

Casa editrice: Random House, New York, USA

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

A Catholic nun shares her unique perspective of the death penalty gained through her counseling of death-row inmates, her shock of the brutality of their crimes, and her sympathy with their pain. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Recensione:

"Destined to become the most influential anti-capital punishment statement since Albert Camus wrote' Reflections on the Guillotine ' in 1957...This unblinking book about the deliberate killing of human beings refuses to turn a blind eye to the sins of the murderers--be they prisoners or prison officials. The author, Sister Helen Prejean, is a Roman Catholic nun who has lived and worked with poor black families in New Orleans. Walking explores her personal and spiritual evolution into both a death penalty opponent and victims advocate, an evolution that begins when she serves as the spiritual advisor to two condemned men." --Washington Post Book World

"This arresting account should do for the debate over capital punishment what the film footage from Selma and Birmingham accomplished for the civil rights movement: turn abstractions into flesh and blood. Tough, fair, bravely alive--you will not come away from this book unshaken."--Bill McKibben
From the Trade Paperback edition.