Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker , is an author of Romans blacks and Scénariste of cinema, born on December 31st 1933 with Hollywood (California, the United States) and dead on July 19th 2005 with Burbank.

He knew years of Prison before seeing himself published. Its three novels No beast so fierce, Animal Factory and Little blue servant boy are models of rough Polar S, putting in scene characters marked by the Violence and the prison, where the difficulty for old the Taulard of reintegrating itself prevents it from finding normal social relations. The fall will be brutal. It is less prolific than James Ellroy with which it is often compared. He played of the secondary roles in certain films, in particular the Recidivist , with Dustin Hoffman inspired by his novel Any so wild animal , and Reservoir Dogs, of Quentin Tarantino.

Works

1991 : No so wild animal ( No beast so fierce , 1973), Editions Shores, introduction of William Styron and postface of James Ellroy, adapted to the cinema by Ulu Grosbard under the title the recidivist ( Straight time ) in 1978
1992: the Animal against the walls ( Animal Factory , 1977), Editions Shores adapted to the cinema by Steve Buscemi under the title Animal Factory
1993: the Animal with the belly ( Little servant boy blue , 1980), Editions Shores
1997: Men of prey ( Dog eat dog , 1994), Editions Shores, foreword of William Styron
2001: the Education of a shady , Editions Shores

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