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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2004
On Sale: September 8, 2004
208 pages
ISBN: 0374430896
EAN: 9780374430894
Paperback (reprint)
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Becoming a writer the hard way In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer
looking for adventure, cash for college tuition, and a way
out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he
recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded
with a ton of hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York
City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal
agents caught up with them. For his part in the conspiracy,
Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over
thirty books for young people confronts the period of
struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own
youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed
moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of
his restless final year of high school, his short-lived
career as a criminal, and his time in prison. But running
just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos – once he
was locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell – moved from
wanting to be a writer to writing, and how dedicating
himself more fully to the thing he most wanted to do helped
him endure and ultimately overcome the worst experience of
his life. Hole in My Life is a 2003 Bank Street - Best
Children's Book of the Year.
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