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Memos from Purgatory is Harlan Ellison's account of his experience with juvenile gangs when he joined one to research them for his first novel, Web of the City. It also describes the author's experience during an overnight stay in jail.
Memo from Purgatory: Directed by Joseph Pevney. With Alfred Hitchcock, James Caan, Lynn Loring, Walter Koenig. Wannabee writer Jay Shaw arrives in NYC. He decides if he's going to write fiction about juvenile delinquent gangs, he'd best learn what they're really like.
Synopsis. Jay is a young writer interested in writing a book on juvenile delinquency. He changes his identity and infiltrates the violent gang "The Barons." He wins the trust of the gang's leader Tiger, but trouble arises when Filene, Tiger's girlfriend, falls in love with Jay.
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Memos from Purgatory is an unflinching, up-close-and-personal examination of street gangs and the callous NYC legal system of the times. It was one of Harlan Ellison’s bestselling books for nearly 25 years.
Released. 1997 — UK. CD —. Album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1989 CD release of "Memos From Purgatory" on Discogs.
From the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama. Hemingway said, “A man should never write what he doesn’t know.” In the mid‐fifties, Harlan Ellison—kicked out of college and hungry to write—went to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with ...
