Escape Artist: Memoir of a Visionary Artist on Death Row
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Escape Artist: Memoir of a Visionary Artist on Death Row
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Overview
William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation’s largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor’s edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture.
After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cell—it was there that he discovered the key to his escape: art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by today—accepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision.
Escape Artist exposes the violence, politics and everyday existence within the underbelly of society that is prison life. In an unprecedented narrative, Noguera reveals the emotional and heart-wrenching loss that landed him on death row and the journey he has taken to become an award-winning artist, speaker, and author—a tale of one man’s transformation through tragedy.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609807979 |
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| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
| Publication date: | 01/16/2018 |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.70(d) |
About the Author
Since writing his memoir, Noguera has aspired to help others through lectures at MBA programs and as a radio guest speaker, concentrating on prevention and intervention. Noguera’s inspiration is simple: pay his debt to society by creating art for charitable causes and encouraging others, and writing and speaking about what it takes to make progressive self-change and the continuous effort that is required for someone to have a positive influence on others. Noguera’s talks share an eye-opening, thought-provoking narrative on the realities of wrongdoing, prison life, ethical responsibility, prison gangs, their culture, the ramifications of destructive behavior, and the rewards of constructive rehabilitation.
Table of Contents
Disclaimer 9
Acknowledgments 11
Forword Walter Pavlo, Jr 13
Preface 17
The Sentence 19
Chapter 1 Orange County Jail to San Quentin Death Row, 1988 21
Chapter 2 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 39
Chapter 3 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 45
Chapter 4 Orange County Jail, 1984 61
Chapter 5 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 71
Chapter 6 Childhood, 1970-1975 77
Chapter 7 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 89
Chapter 8 Orange County Jail, 1984 95
Chapter 9 Childhood, 1975-1976 101
Chapter 10 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 111
Chapter 11 Orange County Jail, 1985 123
Chapter 12 Childhood, 1975-1976 133
Chapter 13 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 139
Chapter 14 Orange County Jail, 1985 151
Chapter 15 Childhood, 1976 161
Chapter 16 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 167
Chapter 17 Orange County Jail, 1985-1986 175
Chapter 18 Adolescence, 1977-1978 181
Chapter 19 San Quentin Death Row, 1988 199
Chapter 20 Orange County Jail, 1986 209
Chapter 21 Adolescence, 1978-1979 219
Chapter 22 San Quentin Death Row, 1989 235
Chapter 23 Orange County Jail,1986 241
Chapter 24 Adolescence, 1979-1980 255
Chapter 25 San Quentin Death Row, 1992-1993 263
Chapter 26 Orange County Jail, 1986 267
Chapter 27 Adolescence, 1980-1981 279
Chapter 28 San Quentin Death Row, 1993-1994 299
Chapter 29 Orange County Jail, 1986-1987 305
Chapter 30 Adolescence, 1981 309
Chapter 31 San Quentin Death Row, 1994 321
Chapter 32 Orange County Jail, 1987 333
Chapter 33 Adolescence, 1981 337
Chapter 34 San Quentin Death Row, 1997-2000 339
Chapter 35 Orange County Jail, 1987 345
Chapter 36 Adolescence, 1981-1982 355
Chapter 37 San Quentin Death Row, 2000-2004 363
Chapter 38 Orange County Jail, 1987 375
Chapter 39 Adolescence, 1982 377
Chapter 40 San Quentin Death Row, 2004-2007 391
Chapter 41 Adolescence, 1982 401
Chapter 42 San Quentin Death Row, 2008-2010 415
Chapter 43 Adolescence, 1982-1983 425
Chapter 44 Adolescence, 1983 429
Epilogue 441
Addendum 443
Glossary 445
About The Author 448