Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays

by Randall Horton

Book Overview

Dead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions. Horton's visceral essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one's life for the better, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates.

The memoir...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144638
• ISBN13: 9780810144637
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 6.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"