Ebook: Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Author: Avi Steinberg
- Tags: Steinberg Avi, Prison librarians, Massachusetts, Boston, Biography, Prison librarians, Massachusetts, Boston
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: Massachusetts--Boston., Place of publication not identified
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison, attracting con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world.
Abstract: In this captivating memoir, Steinberg, a Harvard grad and struggling obituary writer, spends two years as a librarian and writing instructor at a Boston prison, attracting con men, minor prophets, ghosts, and an assortment of quirky regulars searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world