The Animal Factory Edward Bunker Sales Points
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THE ANIMAL FACTORY EDWARD BUNKER SALES POINTS: • New edition to coincide with paperback release of Stark • Eddie Bunker still famous for his role as Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs • Bunker’s reputation still rising since his death in 2005 • Complete backlist new editions with new cover treatments MARKET: Publication 22nd May 2008 Crime fiction, noir fiction. date: price: £7.99 DESCRIPTION: ISBN13: 978-1-84243-267-9 Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag", Earl Copen. Copen is well in Binding: Paperback with flaps with the White Brotherhood just one of the many White, Black and Chicano Format: B (198 X 129mm) gangs in constant brutal conflict in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is extent: 208pp tested by Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads UK & Commonwealth Rights: to an act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote chance excl. Canada of escape. Market Not for sale in the USA Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison life where life Restrictions: or Canada is cheap and death by shiv awaits anyone looking the wrong way with a great literary quality and at a merciless pace that never falters and with the realism BIC code: FF and knowledge gained from spending over 25 years in prison. Report Code: NE REVIEW COVERAGE: Praise for Eddie Bunker: ‘The Animal Factory joins Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and George Jackson's Soledad Brother in the front rank of prison literature...a stone classic - ...’ - Time Out ‘Integrity, craftsmanship and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice...’ - William Styron For a review copy, or for further information, please contact: Chris Burrows PR AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: +44 (0)161 445 6635 email: [email protected] Edward Bunker, Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs, was the author of No Beast So Publisher: No Exit Press Fierce, Little Boy Blue, Dog Eat Dog, The Animal Factory and his PO Box 394 autobiogragphy, Mr Blue, all published by No Exit. He was co-screenwriter of Harpenden the Oscar nominated movie, The Runaway Train, and appeared in over 30 Herts AL5 1XJ feature films, including Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman, the film of his Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1582 761264 book No Beast So Fierce. Edward Bunker died in 2005 and another novel, UK Distribution: Turnaround Stark, was discovered in his papers. 3 Olympia Trading Estate Coburg Rd London N22 6TZ Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 Fax: +44 (0)208 881 5088 www.turnaround-psl.com www.noexit.co.uk/titles/animalfactory.php new editions with new cover treatments released with Stark pb .