True Notebooks - Couverture rigide

Salzman, Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747571309 ISBN 13 : 9780747571308

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Synopsis

Mark Salzman never thought he would be teaching writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for kids in L.A. But the writing changed his mind. Underneath their bravado, his students were terrified young men and they wrote about their fears with remarkable candour and imagination. Many of these pieces are included in the book. Like Salzman, we come to know and care about the boys through them - of their love for their mothers, anger towards their fathers, guilt for the pain they have caused, despair that they may have lost their chances at life. True Notebooks is his wonderful account of these classes: of his students, their writing and his own silent transformation. Impassioned, generous and eye-opening, it is about the nature of writing, the necessity of self-expression and above all about the great magic that can sometimes occur in a classroom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Salzman is the author of Iron and Silk, an account of his two years in China; three novels, The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), Lost in Place, a memoir and the bestselling Lying Awake. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747571309
• ISBN 13: 9780747571308
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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