In The Belly Of The Beast

"Remarkable...Abbott achieves something like an heroic accuracy and detachment."
-James Boatright, Washington Post Book World

"As an articulation of prison nightmare it is completely compelling."
-Terrence Des Pres, New York Times Book Review

"In the cell, on the walk, in the yard, Abbott convincingly summons the terror of confinement, the depths of monotony, a sense of minds bent beyond suffering and pain." -Barry Jacobs, Village Voice

"Astonishing...a work touched with dark great ness...in brutal prose that dredges up its own poetry, he inverts our reality and asserts his. Darkness, light, hunger, fear, sorrow never have been more extremely defined." -John Rechy, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"It echoes like a slammed door in the corridors of maximum security" -J. D. Reed, Time