Gantos, Jack          frey50        <br/><br/>
Hole in my life 
Jack Gantos. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  Farrar, Straus and Giroux  2002 
 - 199 p.  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0374399883 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>9780374399887 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001040957 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Gantos, Jack.<br/>Authors, American Biography --20th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ex-convicts--United States<br/>Criminals.<br/>Authorship<br/>Juvenile materials.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>y813.54 Gan  B   57