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Memos from Purgatory and Other Works
Author: Harlan Ellison
Narrator: Graham Halstead, Mia Barron
Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
Published: 08/11/2020
Synopsis
From the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of Strange Wine: A gritty memoir of life in NYC that became the basis for a Hitchcock TV drama. This audiobook also includes Ellisons Children of the Streets. Hemingway said, A man should never write what he doesnt know. In the mid -fifties, Harlan Ellisonkicked out of college and hungry to writewent to New York to start his career. It was a time of street gangs, rumbles, kids with switchblades, and zip guns made from car radio antennas. Ellison was barely out of his teens himself, but he took a phony name, moved into Brooklyns dangerous Red Hook section, and managed to con his way into a bopping club. What he experienced (and the time he spent in jail as a result) was the basis for the violent story that Alfred Hitchcock filmed as the first of his hour -long TV dramas. This autobiography is a book whose message you will not be able to ignore or forget.