SISTER HELEN PREJEAN—Dead Man Walking—PB—"Painful & Powerful"—New Yorker

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED* TRADE PAPERBACK of: • “DEAD MAN WALKING:AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE UNITED STATES” (VINTAGE BOOKS, 1994) (Trade Paperback, Fifth Edition Thus) • BY SISTER HELEN PREJEAN *SIGNING NOTE: Inscribed & signed in black ink on the Half Title Page as follows: “To Marc—who makes good things happen with words. HELEN PREJEAN.” • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “In 1982, SISTER HELEN PREJEAN became the spiritual advisor to PATRICK SONNIER, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before SONNIER’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. “Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love.”—THE PUBLISHER • “SISTER PREJEAN is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental…. She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “Destined to become the most influential anti-capital punishment statement since ALBERT CAMUS wrote REFLECTIONS ON THE GUILLOTINE in 1957.... This unblinking book about the deliberate killing of human beings refuses to turn a blind eye to the sins of the murderers—be they prisoners or prison officials. The author, SISTER HELEN PREJEAN, is a Roman Catholic nun who has lived and worked with poor black families in New Orleans. DEAD MAN WALKING explores her personal and spiritual evolution into both a death penalty opponent and victims advocate, an evolution that begins when she serves as the spiritual advisor to two condemned men.”—WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “Tough, fair, bravely alive—you will not come away from this book unshaken.” —BILL MCKIBBEN • “Here is one voice for life. We really should need no other.” —NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS • “An intimate meditation on crime and punishment, life and death, justice, and mercy and—above all—Christian love in its most all-embracing sense…. [PREJEAN] never shrinks from the horror of what she has seen. She never resorts to something so predictable as pathos or a play for sympathy.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES • “A remarkable writer…PREJEAN’s manner of describing the tortured relations among prisoners, criminal-justice officers and victims’ families would be the envy of many novelists. Even if your own views on capital punishment are set in concrete, you are sure to be moved by the force of PREJEAN’s personality and commitment.” —GLAMOUR • “Painful and powerful…[ PREJEAN’s] practical moral courage is heroic.” —THE NEW YORKER • “Providing a gritty look at what really happens in the final hours of a death row inmate…PREJEAN takes readers to a place most will thankfully never know.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • “An impassioned condemnation of capital punishment.” —CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “DEAD MAN WALKING”SUBTITLE: “An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States” AUTHOR: SISTER HELEN PREJEAN TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: VINTAGE BOOKS (New York), 1994 EDITION: Fifth Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5.” PAGES: 276ISBN: 0-679-75131-9 NOTE: THIS BOOK is not an ex-library copy nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD PLUS. Covers/wraps are bright & clean with faint creasing along the spine edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Book is square & firm. Text-block edges & endpapers are moderately age-toned. Pages are also moderately age-toned but also clean & bright—with no writing (other than the author’s), no underlining, no highlighting, no tears, no stains, no foxing, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy mailer. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. 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