Hole in my life / Jack Gantos.

Hole in my life / Jack Gantos.

Paperback edition.

0374430896 (pbk.)
9780374430894 (pbk.)

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

English

199 pages ; 20 cm

PS3557.A5197 Z468 2004

The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. 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.

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