The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Abbott writes that “the only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. prison system breaks its prisoners spiritually and emotionally so that they become no better than caged wild animals. The theme which connects these letters together is how the U.S. This is a story of life inside a maximum-security prison, which Abbott calls the “Big House,” and the realities for its inmates. These chapters tend to overlap in subject matter and content, and they are composed primarily from extracts of Abbott’s letters to Mailer while incarcerated. Mailer introduces the book, which is then set out in twelve chapters.
The book doesn’t follow a set chronology and is not told in a linear narrative style. The book’s acclaim helped Abbott achieve an early release, although he then committed suicide in 2002 upon returning to prison for murder.
In the Belly of the Beast is recognized as an exceptional work in the canon of prison literature. First published in 1981 and again in 1991 by Vintage, this book is a collection of correspondences between Abbott, a prison inmate who spent much of his life behind bars, and Mailer, an American journalist and literary critic. In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison is a work of nonfiction by Jack Henry Abbott and Norman Mailer, who introduces the book.
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