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True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.

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Mark Salzman is the author of Iron & Silk, an account of his two years in China; Lost in Place, a memoir; and the novels The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and Lying Awake. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the filmmaker Jessica Yu, and their daughter, Ava.
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ISBN 13 9780375727610
ISBN 10 0375727612
Title True Notebooks
Author Mark Salzman
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2004-08-31
Number of pages 352
Prizes Winner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004, Winner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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