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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (Juni 2024)
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9781589881891
EAN-Code:	9781589881891
Verlag:	Paul Dry Books
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 213 mm / B 140 mm / D 18 mm
Gewicht:	318 gr
Seiten:	241
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

Inhalt:

"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's Stop-Time and Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life." --William Giraldi, author of The Hero's BodyThis powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a "backward boy" in a poor part of London, a disorienting move to tropical Australia, and the secrets he and his family kept from one another.Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood is Kevin Hart's searing, yet at times hilarious, narrative of his first thirteen years. It is a story of survival and transformation, of deception and recovery, and it passes from a frightening childhood in the East-End of London to a new and bewildering life in sub-tropical Australia. Throughout, Hart draws on John Bunyan's evocation of "Dark-Land" in Pilgrim's Progress, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in order to seek the Celestial City. But Dark-Land is no allegory. We see Hart's hidden inner life, his family's penchant for keeping secrets, and their illusions about the nature of their shared past. We see Hart grow from being the despair of his teachers in a rough primary school to experiencing a "conversion" in a math class in Brisbane, Australia, which turned him into a Christian, a poet, and an academic.Written in elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, Dark-Land is a memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the story of a convert to Christianity.