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The lost chapters : finding recovery and renewal one book at a time / Leslie Schwartz.
Van Pelt Library HV9468.S255 A3 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Leslie, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schwartz, Leslie, 1962---Imprisonment.
- Schwartz, Leslie.
- Los Angeles County Jail (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Anecdotes.
- Los Angeles County Jail (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Schwartz, Leslie, 1962-.
- Prisoners--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Books and reading--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.
- Women prisoners--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Women prisoners.
- Women prisoners--Books and reading--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.
- Recovering alcoholics--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Recovering alcoholics.
- Women prisoners--Abuse of--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.
- Women prisoners--Abuse of.
- Books and reading.
- Prisoners--Books and reading.
- California--Los Angeles.
- California.
- Women prisoners--Fiction.
- Women authors--Biography.
- Drunk driving.
- Alcoholics.
- American authors--21st century--Biography.
- Women alcoholics.
- Local Subjects:
- Schwartz, Leslie, 1962-.
- Women prisoners--Fiction.
- Women authors--Biography.
- Drunk driving.
- Alcoholics.
- American authors--21st century--Biography.
- Women alcoholics.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Autobiographies.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 251 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Lost chapters : reclaiming my life, one book at a time
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2018.
- Summary:
- In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. After more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz had a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
- Contents:
- Processing in
- Pregnant module
- Exit module
- EBI module : dayroom
- EBI module : lockup
- EBI module : last days
- Processing out.
- Notes:
- Subtitle on dust jacket: Reclaiming my life, one book at a time.
- ISBN:
- 9780525534631
- 0525534636
- OCLC:
- 1033585725
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