Book : True Notebooks A Writers Year At Juvenile Hall -...

-Titulo Original : True Notebooks A Writers Year At Juvenile Hall

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Vintage

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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. Review “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 From the Inside Flap 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. From the Back Cover 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. About the Author 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1.Somebody Mr. Jenkins unlocked the bolt and pushed the steel-frame door to K/L unit open with his shoulder.Look whos back. Nice trip?Very nice. I had just returned from my sisters wedding in Connecticut. Did we lose anybody while I was gone?Paulinos in the Box, but hell be back.Hey Mark! Whassup?Three of the boys in my juvenile hall writing class were already in the library, their folders and notepads spread out on the table. Toa, a seventeen-year-old Samoan with a linebackers build, stepped forward and gave me a hug. So you bring us any maple syrup, or what? he asked.Maple syrup?I know bout that cause a watchin Mr. Rogers when I was a kid.Raashads eyes opened wide. You seen that show too?Every kid seen that show, fool. Nothin else to do in the mornin cept break toys an shit.Yeah, I was always like, where that neighborhood at? Nobody got drunk or beat his ass or n