Book summaryGantos, the well-known author of the Rotten Ralph picture books and young adult novels such as JOEY PIGZA SWALLOWED THE KEY and JOEY PIGZA LOSES CONTROL, shares the true story of how he was arrested and sent to jail for drug dealing. Reflecting on his childhood, his education, and his time in jail, Gantos explores how he stopped merely dreaming of becoming a writer and actually became one, and talks about how his writing helped him survive his years in prison. |
HOLE IN MY LIFEby Gantos, JackFirst Edition
Book desription: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New. 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 0374430896 . New & unread, no markings. Young adult to adult reading. In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer desperate for adventure, college cash, 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 hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents finally caught up to them in a bust at the Chelsea Hotel. For his part in the conspiracy, the twenty-year-old Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in My Life, this acclaimed author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. (*shipping will be reduced on this lighter book) ; 8vo .
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