True Notebooks

A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Mark Salzman

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Random US
01 August 2004

Biography; Creative writing & creative writing guides; Writing skills

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.

By: Mark Salzman
Imprint: Random US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 289g
ISBN: 9780375727610
ISBN 10: 0375727612
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 August 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

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 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