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  • Lying Awake

    A Novel

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith.Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • True Notebooks

    A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

    by Mark Salzman ...
    In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Man in the Empty Boat

    by Mark Salzman ...
    From the author of Iron & Silk comes a moving memoir of love and family, loss and spiritual yearningAnxiety has always been part of Mark Salzman's life: He was born into a family as nervous as rabbits, people with extra angst coded into their genes. As a young man he found solace through martial arts, meditation, tai chi, and rigorous writing schedules, but as he approaches midlife, he confronts ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iron and Silk

    A Memoir

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Soloist

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    As a child, Renne showed promise of becoming one of the world's greatest cellists. Now, years later, his life suddenly is altered by two events: he becomes a juror in a murder trial for the brutal killing of a Buddhist monk, and he takes on as a pupil a Korean boy whose brilliant musicianship reminds him of his own past. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Laughing Sutra

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lost In Place

    Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia

    by Mark Salzman ...
    From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lying Awake

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Narrated by Linda Stephens ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 51 min

    Mark Salzman received critical acclaim for Iron & Silk, his personal account of two years spent in China. In Lying Awake, he creates a fascinating spiritual landscape that lies behind the walls of a monastery. Readers around the world praise the beauty and originality of this novel. Sister John has devoted her life to serving God. For almost 30 years she has lived in a Carmelite monastery near Los ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    True Notebooks

    A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Narrated by Mark Salzman ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 26 min

    When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    True Notebooks

    A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    When Mark Salzman is invited to visit a writing class at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles’s most violent teenage offenders, he scrambles for a polite reason to decline. He goes—expecting the worst—and is so astonished by what he finds that he becomes a teacher there himself. True Notebooks is an account of Salzman’s first years teaching at Central. Through it, we come to know his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Man in the Empty Boat

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Narrated by Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Soloist

    by Mark Salzman ...
    Narrated by David Chandler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    Acclaimed best-selling author Mark Salzman delivers a humorously poignant tale in this novel of disappointment and redemption. Renne Sundheimer's life is a shadow of his youth, when he was a celebrated genius cellist. Now a college professor, he struggles to regain his gift. But in one week he is drafted into jury duty and reluctantly agrees to tutor a young Korean boy, forcing Renne to come to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD