Cool Hand Luke

Donn Pearce

Language: English

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: Aug 17, 1999

Description:

From Library Journal

Pearce's 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenplay starring Paul Newman in the lead role.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, war hero turned "pretty evil feller," whose refusal to "git his mind right" becomes part of his fellow convicts' mythology of survival.