Product Details
Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 18 days ago
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Jan 2003
Seller Description
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.
Overview
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
ISBN: 9780965439152
Publisher Description
The author shares his experiences working with kids in Central Juvenile Hall, a jail for kids located near Los Angeles, assisting them with their writing.
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