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15 to life : how I painted my way to freedom / by Anthony Papa ; with Jennifer Wynn.

Title
15 to life : how I painted my way to freedom / by Anthony Papa ; with Jennifer Wynn.
Author
Papa, Anthony.
Publication
Los Angeles, Ca. : Feral House, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Wynn, Jennifer.
Description
215 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
Summary
A riveting story featuring a 16-page signature with color photos and reproductions of Anthony Papa's art, "15 To Life" is also an important social critique of America's draconian drug laws and a clarion call for reform.
Alternative Title
  • Fifteen to life
  • How I painted my way to freedom
Subject
  • Papa, Anthony > Imprisonment
  • Sing Sing Prison
  • Drug couriers > New York > Biography
  • Prisoners as artists > New York
  • Drugs of abuse > New York > Criminal provisions
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
American dream, american tragedy -- Nightmare of justice -- Searching for an answer -- Godly arbitration -- Metamorphosis -- Swing swing -- Discovery of art -- Deep fried and hermetically sealed -- The zoo -- The Whitney Museum -- The art of clemency -- My walk in the sun -- The reality of freedom -- So close yet so far.
ISBN
  • 1932595066
  • 9781932595062
OCLC
  • 57415810
  • SCSB-11404949
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library