Donn Pearce: Cool Hand Luke: A Novel

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Cool Hand Luke: A Novel

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. (read review)

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“Great book. It was all about the inside culture and cool hand luke being the hero and inspiration of the prison. I just didn't get the inside's of Luke's mind, but that is the interesting part of the book.”

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uplandpoet said:

“wow! you worked on a prison detail in central florida? i gather you dont mean quite that parallel! this is almost as powerful to me as mockingbird and all quiet on the western front...”

posted Saturday, October 6 2007

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