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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780061626395
ISBN: 0061626392
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: November 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Studio: Harper Perennial

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Editorial Review:

Product 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.






Rating: - I'll Fly Away
Wally Lamb has done it again! This shows his compassion for these women along with their chance to do something worthwhile. Well written.

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Rating: - not my favorite
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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Rating: - Must-read for just about anyone
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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Rating: - Very touching
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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Rating: - IMPRISONED ELOQUENCE
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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