| I'll Fly Away Contributor(s): Lamb, Wally (Author), I'll Fly Away Contributors (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061626392 ISBN-13: 9780061626395 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their fears and failures and begin to imagine better lives. "Couldn't Keep It to Myself," a collection of their essays, was published in 2003 to great critical acclaim. With "I'll Fly Away," Lamb offers readers a new volume of intimate pieces from the York workshop. Startling, heartbreaking, and inspiring, these stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each illuminates an important core truth: that a life "can" be altered through self-awareness and the power of the written word. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Penology - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 810.809 |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.47 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Connecticut - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For several years, Wally Lamb, the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, has run a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only maximum-security prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to face their fears and failures and begin to imagine better lives. Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of their essays, was published in 2003 to great critical acclaim. With I'll Fly Away, Lamb offers readers a new volume of intimate pieces from the York workshop. Startling, heartbreaking, and inspiring, these stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each illuminates an important core truth: that a life can be altered through self-awareness and the power of the written word. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lamb, Wally: - Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hopin', and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and |