# Cool Hand Luke

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- Book: [Cool Hand Luke](https://www.bookquiver.com/donn-pearce/cool-hand-luke) ([Cool Hand Luke.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donn-pearce/cool-hand-luke.md))
- Authors: [Donn Pearce](https://www.bookquiver.com/donn-pearce)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-15-6025-228-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1999-08-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.