Overview
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.The book, True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780375727610 in Paperback by Mark Salzman may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
08/31/2004
ISBN-10:
0375727612
ISBN-13:
9780375727610
Pages:
352
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
