The Prison Book Club

by Ann Walmsley

应作者沃姆斯利女士的请求,监狱读书俱乐部中,有6位成员多次与作者进行了一对一的访谈。飞车党格兰汉姆,枪击案犯弗兰克,毒品走私犯本与德莱德,以及抢劫犯加斯顿与皮特。作者根据自己的调查与了解,以及犯人本人的陈述,将他们的经历一一陈述,并跟踪了他们出狱后的生活。读书改变了狱友,狱友们改变了作者。安·沃姆斯利著的《监狱读书俱乐部》既有着悲悯的情怀,又有着诙谐的笔触,让我们洞悉监狱生活及刑罚体系,就让我们翻开书,开启这一段救赎之旅吧。

274 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2018

About the author

Ann Walmsley is a magazine journalist whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail and Maclean's. She is the recipient of four National Magazine Awards, a Canadian Business Journalism Award and two International Regional Magazine Awards.

Born in Picton, Ontario, Walmsley graduated with a degree in English literature from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, before pursuing a career in journalism as a magazine writer, book reviewer and editor. During her writing career, she has lived in Toronto, Paris, Westport CT, Dallas and London.

Intrigued by her parents’ membership in a local literary society called Tennyson Club, she founded her first book club at age nine. Since then, she has been a member of five other book clubs in Canada and the U.K. But it wasn’t until a friend invited her in 2010 to help with book selection for a prison book club that she found the material for a book that she herself would write.