{"product_id":"you-got-nothing-coming-paperback","title":"You Got Nothing Coming - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJimmy A. Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir of astonishing power-the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated \"Suicide Watch #3.\" The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison \"fish,\" or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, \"You got nothing coming.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish's progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the book's climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances-a compound of bad luck and worse judgment-led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElectrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, \u003ci\u003eYou Got Nothing Coming \u003c\/i\u003eis impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite \u003ci\u003eOz\u003c\/i\u003e is to television, this book is to prose-and all of the events are real.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir of astonishing power-the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive. \u003cbr\u003eIt is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated \"Suicide Watch #3.\" The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison \"fish,\" or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, \"You got nothing coming.\" \u003cbr\u003eBringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish's progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the book's climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances-a compound of bad luck and worse judgment-led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell. \u003cbr\u003eElectrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, \"You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. Whatthe cult favorite \"Oz is to television, this book is to prose-and all of the events are real. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA native of Brooklyn, New York, and former resident of Danville, California, \u003cb\u003eJIMMY LERNER\u003c\/b\u003e served in the U.S. Army in Panama, subsequently received his M.B.A., and worked for eighteen years as a marketing executive and planner for Pacific Bell. In 1998 he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter; he has just been released on parole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451987378354,"sku":"9780767909198","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/f0199898d4499fd91d4eadb465571c62.webp?v=1778805179","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/you-got-nothing-coming-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}