Jonny is broken off, and doing time in an eastern Washington State Prison.
Zek is available now for the first time on the outside..
It is likely Arthur Longworth\'s most widely read work, as it has been passed among prisoners and Prison guards for over a decade.
Completed in 2005, Zek utilizes the literary structure of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\'s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to tell the Story of a day in the life of a prisoner in the United States.
He is widely published and has won numerous awards for his writing, including three National PEN awards.
Arthur Longworth was born in Tacoma, Washington, was state-raised, and entered Prison at the age of 21 with a seventh-grade education.
And it is beautiful.
It is ugly.
It is naked.
Zek is his story, and it lays bare the brutality of a life spent behind bars.
Intending at first to savor it, to read only a little at a time, he emerges a few short hours later, the book finished--And Jonny changed.
When Jonny is sent to the hole, he chances upon a deteriorating book.
He\'ll likely never see the outside world again.
Jonny is broken off, and doing time in an eastern Washington State Prison
