Seventeen-year-old Doug is in the wrong place at the wrong time and ends up in jail. What happens next could only have been written by the author of IT'S COLD OUT THERE and ON THE YARD.
A major American novel, and arguably the finest work of literature ever to emerge from a US prison, On the Yard is a book of penetrating psychological realism in which Malcolm Braly paints an unforget
After getting arrested for petty burglary as a teenager, Braly couldn’t get a break and spent much of his life behind bars. This is his searing autobiography, from the author of Shake Him Till He Ratt