Andy West
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free
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Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons, exploring pressing questions of truth, identity, and hope with his students. The Life Inside is a memoir that offers a new insight into the justice system, failing prisons, and the complex lives being lived inside. It is inspiring, sympathetic, wise, and frequently funny.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
The Irish Times and The i Book of 2022 are described as tense and intimate, offering an educational experience. Geoff Dyer praises it as enriching, sobering, and at times heartrending, while Sir Lenny Henry describes it as a wonder. Terry Waite also praises it as authentic, fascinating, and deeply moving. The book explores philosophical questions such as whether someone in prison can be more free than someone outside, whether we can ever be good without feeling shame, and what makes a person worthy of forgiveness.
Andy West is a philosophy teacher who conducts conversations with individuals in prisons about their lives, ideas, and feelings. He also confronts his inherited shame, as his father, uncle, and brother have all spent time behind bars. While Andy has built a different life for himself, he still fears that his fate will be the same.
The Life Inside is a memoir that blends storytelling and gentle philosophical questioning to offer a new insight into the justice system, failing prisons, and the complex lives being lived inside. It is praised for its inspiring, sympathetic, wise, and frequently funny approach. The book expands both heart and mind and is described as a legitimate page-turner.
Inspiring, the Observer describes the book as striving with humor and compassion to understand the phenomenon of prison. The Sydney Review of Books praises it for expanding both heart and mind, while Ciaran Thapar describes it as a fascinating and enlightening journey. 3AM also praises it as a fascinating and enlightening journey, describing it as a legitimate page-turner.
Weight: 250g
Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529032024
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