True Notebooks by Mark Salzman

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.

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
Titre	True Notebooks
Auteur	Mark Salzman
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Random House USA Inc
Année de publication	2004-08-31
Nombre de pages	352
Prix	Winner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004, Winner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.
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