True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Salzman, Mark

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375727610)

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Format: Paperback
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Salzman, Mark

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

$20.00
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall by Salzman, Mark

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Mark Salzman
ISBN-10: 0375727612
ISBN-13: 9780375727610
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.24w x 0.75d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.3
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 83240 / True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 11/01/2004 pg. 34
By Mark Salzman
By Mark Salzman
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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.

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