Escape Artist
- Authors
- Noguera, William A.
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Tags
- memoir death row , life in san quentin , san quentin memoir , memoir about art in prison , life in maximum security prison , memoir maximum security prison , painter memoir , painter in prison , memoir about life in prison , painter on death row , art as redemption , artist on death row , artist in prison , abolish death penalty , memoir about death row , artist memoir , against death penalty , convict memoir , living on death row , memoir about art and redemption , prison memoir , san quentin artist , memoir about self-rehabilitation
- Date
- 2018-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 24.43 MB
- Lang
- en
An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation's largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor's edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture. After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cellit was there that he discovered the key to his escape: art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by todayaccepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision. Escape Artist exposes the...