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True Notebooks
A Writer's Year At Juvenile Hall
Salzman, Mark
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BOOK 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.

BOOK REVIEWS
Extraordinary. . . . Everything about this book seems perfect. San Francisco Chronicle

Fresh, galvanizing and articulate . . . a narrative that asks as many questions as it answers. Cogent, thoughtful and honest. The New York Times

One cannot read. . . and not be stirred . . . As moving as it is sparse, as revealing as it is concealing, as straightforward as it is complex. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Engaging. . . . Salzman creates a cast of lively, convincing, and hugely sympathetic characters and True Notebooks is filled with powerfully moving scenes. O, The Oprah Magazine

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375727612
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375727610
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 808/.042/071079494
Library of Congress: bl2004118165
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 330
Paper Weight (lb): .5438 lb

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