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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.809287086927
EAN: 9780061369223
ISBN: 0061369225
Label: Harper
Manufacturer: Harper
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: September 01, 2007
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Sales Rank: 335896
Studio: Harper
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Product Description:
In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True--published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their fears and their failures, and begin to imagine better lives. The New York Times described the book as "Gut-tearing tales . . . the unvarnished truth." The Los Angeles Times said of it, "Lying next to and rising out of despair, hope permeates this book."
Now Lamb returns with I'll Fly Away, a new volume of intimate, searching pieces from the York workshop. Here, twenty women--eighteen inmates and two of Lamb's cofacilitators--share the experiences that shaped them from childhood and that haunt and inspire them to this day. These portraits, vignettes, and stories depict with soul-baring honesty how and why women land in prison--and what happens once they get there. The stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each testifies to the same core truth: the universal value of knowing oneself and changing one's life through the power of the written word.
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Wally Lamb is definitely one of my favorite authors and I am always awaiting his next work. I enjoyed "Couldn't Keep it to Myself" but was not as pleased with this book. Just bought his latest novel "The Hour I First Believed" and am enjoying it so far.
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This book, and its partner "Couldn't Keep It To Myself" by the same author, is at times tough and uplifting. These are essays that women have worked on in a writing class inside the prison. They are their personal stories, which usually reveal so much about their circumstances and decisions that led them to incarceration.
Some of it is rough to read, such as troubled family lives and things happening to them that we don't like to think about. You get a chance to see the real consequences ... Read More
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I haven't read anything by Wally Lamb in a while and while this book was not exactly written by Wally; it still captures his spirit. He inspired these women to get to the inner truth and beauty of harch realities and this touches you in the same fashion that Mr. Lamb does. I am very impressed.
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Wally Lamb is one of those writers that readers wish would write more. But seeing how he spends his time, readers can understand why he isn't pounding away at a keyboard relentlessly. Instead, he is inspiring incarcerated women to reach within themselves, bring forth what they know, and express themselves creatively. The pieces in this second collection are poignant given the circucumstances in which they were written, but hopeful in that they give voice to these neglected women, giving them expression. ... Read More
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I liked most of these stories except for "Prom Queen" which was just the typical day for a druggie - with tedious detail. The rest were very well-written, although lots of them lacked self-insight. Only a few of the writers felt any remorse for their crimes - one of them, Roberta Schwartz, gave an excellent perspective of prison life. One woman killed her husband because he molested her granddaughter. She felt bad and called herself a murderer. She shouldn't feel bad for doing the world a favor. Another ... Read More
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