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Ink from the Pen
- A Prison Memoir
- De: Mark Olmsted
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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Ink from the Pen is the story of an educated, HIV+ gay man whose decades-long walk on the wild side came crashing down in 2004, when he found himself facing nine months in prison for dealing the crystal meth he’d become addicted to during the worst of the AIDS epidemic. Olmsted soon discovered his love of words was precisely what would get him through the experience. With a keen eye for detail and an unerring capacity to deftly convey the poignancy and absurdities of incarceration, Mark learned that creativity is one of the most powerful survival tools there is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Peering behind the bars
- De Ludwig's Son en 07-30-22
- Ink from the Pen
- A Prison Memoir
- De: Mark Olmsted
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
Loss and beauty
Revisado: 11-17-22
Mark Olmstead writes about his experience in prison as a gay man, but the story is so much more than that basic premise. It’s a reflective recapturing of his past, what drove him to ruin and almost death, and in the end, it’s about the love of his family. Prison saved his life and changed the entire direction of his path. The book is clever in a fun, insider-ish manner…”In fact I got a big kick out of knowing that I am almost certainly the only person in the history of the California prison system to be reading Talk Of The Town in the New Yorker, while chowing down on unpardoned turkey tacos.”
I loved the book, finished it in only three sittings. Bittersweet at times and always a unique perspective as part of a targeted population in a very scary place, and how Mark dealt with his circumstances with humor, fast thinking, “reading the room/cell,” and making the absolute best of a brutal situation.
Highly recommended read.
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