Hole in my life
by Gantos, Jack frey50
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) , 2002 Physical details: 199 p. 20 cm. ISBN:0374399883. ISSN:978037439| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.