True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Salzman, Mark

ISBN 10: 0375727612 / ISBN 13: 9780375727610

Edité par Vintage, 2004

N° de réf. du vendeur 0375727612-3-20053359

Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile ...
Éditeur : Vintage
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Good