True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile HallBy: Mark Salzman 
Lowest New Price: $7.93List Price: $15.00 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. Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2004-08-31 --> Find out more about "True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall" at Amazon.com or Order Now |
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