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LAMB, WALLY
Format: Book - Hardcover
Released: Sat 1 Sep 2007
Catalogue Number: 0007149443
I'LL FLY AWAY (1)
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"In 2003, Wally Lamb published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of writings by the students at his writing workshop at the York Correctional Facility, a women's prison in York, Connecticut. Writing, Lamb had found, was an unexpected and transforming way for these women to recapture their humanity and the hope that many of them had long since lost. The resulting collection offered a revealing window into the souls of once–powerless women, as they learned what it meant to gain control over their voices and, in many cases, their lives. Now, Lamb returns with I'll Fly Away, a new volume of intimate, searching pieces from the York workshop. Here, in works of memoir, poetry, and introspection, twenty women share the experiences that shaped them from childhood, and that trouble and inspire them to this day. Here are stories of anger, physical abuse, rape, and emotional distress, but also more positive memories: of expressions of love, of gifts received and remembered, of light moments from happier times. These portraits, vignettes, and stories are painted in many colours: innocence and pain, denial, redemption, and transcendence. And, at their heart, they all testify to the same core truth: the universal value of knowing oneself, and changing one's life, through the power of the written word."
"In 2003, Wally Lamb published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, a collection of writings by the students at his writing workshop at the York Correctional Facility, a women's prison in York, Connecticut. Writing, Lamb had found, was an unexpected and transforming way for these women to recapture their humanity and the hope that many of them had long since lost. The resulting collection offered a revealing window into the souls of once–powerless women, as they learned what it meant to gain control over their voices and, in many cases, their lives. Now, Lamb returns with I'll Fly Away, a new volume of intimate, searching pieces from the York workshop. Here, in works of memoir, poetry, and introspection, twenty women share the experiences that shaped them from childhood, and that trouble and inspire them to this day. Here are stories of anger, physical abuse, rape, and emotional distress, but also more positive memories: of expressions of love, of gifts received and remembered, of light moments from happier times. These portraits, vignettes, and stories are painted in many colours: innocence and pain, denial, redemption, and transcendence. And, at their heart, they all testify to the same core truth: the universal value of knowing oneself, and changing one's life, through the power of the written word."
Details:
- Publisher: Harpercollins
- Subject Development: Essays
- Geographic Designator: United States
- Academic Level: General Adult
- Depth (m): 0.025
- Dewey: 810.8/09287/086927
- Edition: 1
- Height (m): 0.241
- Pages: 258
- Place Of Publication: United States
- Published Date: Sat 1 Sep 2007
- Weight (g): 544
- Width (m): 0.171
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