Hole in My Life Hole in My Life

Hole in My Life

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Publisher Description

From aspiring writer to convicted drug smuggler: a young man's journey of self-discovery behind bars.

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 raw and honest memoir that explores themes of ambition, incarceration, and the transformative power of writing. A Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honor book, it offers a unique perspective on the consequences of youthful mistakes and the resilience of the human spirit. This title has Common Core connections.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2002
March 26
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.8
MB
AUDIENCE
Grades 9-13

Customer Reviews

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Great book

This is a really really good book. I was forced to read it by my school but it was worth it and its very entertaining . He had a hard life but he made it tho it. I really recommend this book. By the way his a great author. Try some of his other books as well .

Skuppahs ,

Well written novel

What a nice read. Period

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