By Edward Bunker
In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of felony novelists eventually tells his personal tale. The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkeley refrain woman, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in San Quentin. His hard-won stories on L.A.'s meanest streets and out and in of legal gave him the fabric to jot down a few of the grittiest and so much affecting novels of our time.
From smoking a joint within the fuel chamber to leaving fingerprints on a knife hooked up to a serial kiler, from Hollywood's steamy undersde to swimming within the Neptune pool at San Simeon, Bunker grants a memoir as colourful as any of his novels and as compelling because the existence he's lead.
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Cheerful, manly things. She laughed aloud, then caught herself. That wasn’t fair. She really was grateful for Lolo’s solicitude toward me. He wouldn’t have treated his own son very differently. She knew that she was lucky for Lolo’s basic kindness. She set her papers aside and watched me do push-ups. He’s growing so fast, she thought. She tried to picture herself on the day of our arrival, a mother of twenty-four with a child in tow, married to a man whose history, whose country, she barely knew.
ORIGINS 19 My grandmother didn’t have an answer that day, but the question lingered in her mind, one that she and Gramps would sometimes discuss once my mother had gone to bed. They decided that Toot would keep calling Mr. Reed “Mister,” although she understood, with a mixture of relief and sadness, the careful distance that the janitor now maintained whenever they passed each other in the halls. Gramps began to decline invitations from his coworkers to go out for a beer, telling them he had to get home to keep the wife happy.
A queer notion suddenly sprang into my head. ” I asked him. He glanced down, surprised by the question. ” I asked again. “Yes,” he said. ” I thought for a moment. “Why was the man killed? ” Lolo shrugged and rolled his pant leg back down. “That’s usually enough. Men take advantage of weakness in other men. They’re just like countries in that way. The strong man takes the weak man’s land. He makes the weak man work in his fields. ” I didn’t answer, and Lolo squinted up at the sky. “Better to be strong,” he said finally, rising to his feet.