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A Sense of Freedom Paperback - 2016

by Jimmy Boyle

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"'My life sentence had actually started the day I left my mother's womb . . ."

Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting, and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal. Kids' gangs led to trouble with the police. Approved schools led to Borstal, and Jimmy was on his way to a career in crime. By his 20s he was a hardened villain, sleeping with prostitutes, running shebeens and money-lending rackets. Then they nailed him for murder. The sentence was life--the brutal, degrading eternity of a broken spirit in the prisons of Peterhead and Inverness. Thankfully, Jimmy was able to turn his life around inside the prison walls and eventually released on parole. A Sense of Freedom is a searing indictment of a society that uses prison bars and brutality to destroy a man's humanity and at the same time an outstanding testament to one man's ability to survive, to find a new life, a new creativity, and a new alternative.

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  • Title A Sense of Freedom
  • Author Jimmy Boyle
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ebury Press
  • Publication date 2016
  • ISBN 9781785033032 / 1785033034
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.9 in (19.56 x 12.45 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography

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Jimmy Boyle entered the world of crime as a youth. In 1967, he was given a life sentence for murder, a crime he didn't commit. Clashes with authorities and solitary confinement ensued. But, in 1973, Jimmy was one of the first offenders to participate in a rehabilitation program that included art therapy, which awakened a major creative talent. After his parole in 1982, Jimmy became an acclaimed artist and one of Scotland's most reformed criminals.

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