Ezekiel Farragut, college professor, junkie and a killer is sent to Falconer Correctional Facility to serve his sentence.
Cheever tells us of the "vice, misery and degradation of prison" and he writes beautifully.
At the beginning of the book while being transported to prison a fellow prisoner, deformed by boils and acne, laments that he has never had sex that wasn't paid for; it is heart breaking to read and Cheever is able to do that to the reader over and over through the book.
The ending of the book has been done, most notably by Dumas in 1844 but the writing is brilliant so this is a small quibble.
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