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True Notebooks (Alex Awards)
True Notebooks - Alex Awards
Author: Mark Salzman
Salzman (Lying Awake; Iron & Silk) volunteered to teach creative writing at Central Juvenile Hall, a Los Angeles County detention facility for "high-risk" juvenile offenders. Most of these under-18 youths had been charged with murder or other serious crimes, and after trial and sentencing many would end up in a penitentiary, some for life. Siste...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375413087
ISBN-10: 0375413081
Publication Date: 9/16/2003
Pages: 352
Edition: 1st
Rating:
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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I really enjoyed this book. It is not a detailed narrative or a story, per se. It is a collection of essays that the author has put into context only be telling a bit of the boys' lives and his feelings about them at the time that they wrote.


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