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Review:
His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing. By turns savagely funny and deeply moving, his stories and accounts of prison life have won praise from writers like Norman Mailer, Alan Sillitoe, Nat Hentoff, and Arniri Baraka.
In a spare, bold style that cuts to the heart of what
incarceration does to people, Washington looks at
crime and criminals, relationships, games, scams,
and the secret lives and unique aspirations of men
who live in iron houses.
"... a robust, brutal and naked memoir of the author's sixteen years and three months in maximum security, told in a no-holds barred fashion that aptly suits its content...irrepressible energy and lucidity...downright mesmerizing, priceless glimpses into a world that most readers of this magazine will never have to face."-The Nation
" ... most of the stories of the pimps, punks, hoods and bums in his gallery of fellow inmates are scarier and funnier than other prison accounts I've read, and more arresting for having been written in a spare, skeletal, singsong that fits somewhere between poetry and rap."-San Francisco Bay Guardian
"...Jerome Washington is the rare con with the nerve to be on the inside looking in. Iron House: Stories from the Yard gives us prison life in living color and stereo-quality sound " -Dannie Martin, San Francisco Chronicle
Winner
of the
Western States
Arts Federation
Book Award for
Creative Nonfiction
Editor's Choice" -Booklist
