I'll Fly Away - Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

Informationen zum Autor 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 selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself , I’ll Fly Away , and You Don’t Know Me , three volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for two decades. He lives in Connecticut and New York. Zusammenfassung 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. ...

Product details

• Authors: I'll Fly Away contributors, Wally Lamb
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2007
• EAN: 9780061430688
• ISBN: 978-0-06-143068-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE: Islamic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Science & Technology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, WOMEN'S STUDIES: SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Media Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: General, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Penology, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General