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[ 책 소개 ]
* Michael L. Printz Award 수상작
* Parents' Choice Award 수상작
* Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Award 수상작
* Robert F. Sibert Award 수상작
* Massachusetts Children's Book Award 수상작
* ALA Books for Young Adults
* ALA Notable Children's Books
* ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Readers
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
* Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
* Booklist Editors' Choice
* Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
Newbery 수상작인 Joey Pigza Loses Control과 어린이 그림책인 Rotten Ralph 시리즈로 잘 알려진 당대 최고의 베스트셀러 아동문학작가 중 한 명인 Jack Gantos의 자전적 소설입니다.
1971년 여름, Jack Gantos는 작가를 꿈꾸는 고 3 학생이면서, 한편으로는 입학할 대학교의 학비를 마련하기 위해 대마초를 운반하는 위험한 아르바이트를 하게 됩니다. 1만달러를 받고 요트를 이용해서 버진 아일랜드를 출발하여 뉴욕으로 대마초를 운반하던 Jack Gantos는 마약단속반에 체포되고 6년 동안 감옥에 갇히게 됩니다. 이 책은 Jack Gantos가 빛나야할 젊은 청춘 시절을 감옥에 갇혀서 범죄인으로 지내면서 겪었던 고통과 좌절의 순간들, 그리고 이런 최악의 경험를 극복하면서 작가로 성공하게 되는 과정을 흥미진진하게 들려 줍니다.
[ 서지 정보 ]
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0374430896
ISBN-13: 978-0374430894
책 크기: 19.2 cm x 12.8 cm
[ 영문 서평 ]
Book Description
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. 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.
Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
After penning a number of novels for preteens, including the Joey Pigza books and the Jack series, Gantos makes a smooth transition as he addresses an older audience. He uses the same bold honesty found in his fiction to offer a riveting autobiographical account of his teen years and the events may well penetrate the comfort zone of even the most complacent young adults. The memoir begins with the dramatic image of the author as a young convict ("When I look at my face in the photo I see nothing but the pocked mask I was hiding behind"). The book then goes on to provide an in-depth examination of the sensitive and intelligent boy residing behind a tough facade. Inspired by the words and lives of some of his favorite American authors, Gantos sought adventure after leaving high school. He eagerly agreed to help smuggle a shipment of hashish from Florida to New York without giving thought of the possible consequences. Knowing that the narrator is destined to land in jail keeps suspense at a high pitch, but this book's remarkable achievement is the multiple points of view that emerge, as experiences force a fledgling writer to continually revise his perspective of himself and the world around him. The book requires a commitment, as it rambles a bit at times, but it provides much food for thought and fuel for debate. It will leave readers emotionally exhausted and a little wiser.
School Library Journal *Starred Review*
The compelling story of the author's final year in high school, his brushes with crime, and his subsequent incarceration. Gantos has written much about his early years with his eccentric family, and this more serious book picks up the tale as they moved to Puerto Rico during his junior year. He returned to Florida alone, living in a seedy motel while he finished high school and realized that his options for college weren't great. A failed drug deal cost him most of his savings and he joined his family, now in St. Croix, where he accepted an offer of $10,000 to help sail a boat full of hash to New York. He and his colleagues were caught, and as it turns out, he was in more trouble than he anticipated. Sent to federal prison for up to six years, Gantos landed a job in the hospital section, a post that protected him from his fellow inmates, yet allowed him to witness prison culture firsthand. Much of the action in this memoir-some of it quite raw and harsh-will be riveting to teen readers. However, the book's real strength lies in the window it gives into the mind of an adolescent without strong family support and living in the easy drug culture of the 1970s. Gantos looks for role models and guidance in the pages of the books he is reading, and his drive to be a writer and desire to go to college ultimately save him.
From Booklist *Starred Review*
Jack Gantos' riveting memoir of the 15 months he spent as a young man in federal prison for drug smuggling is more than a harrowing, scared-straight confession: it is a beautifully realized story about the making of a writer. As Gantos himself notes: "It [prison] is where I went from thinking about becoming a writer, to writing." His examination of the process--including his unsparing portrayal of his fears, failings, and false starts--is brilliant and breathtaking in its candor and authenticity. Particularly fascinating is his generous use of literary allusions to everything from Baudelaire to Billy Budd, which subtly yet richly dramatize how he evolved from a reader who became a character in the books he was reading to a writer and a character in his own life story. Gantos' spare narrative style and straightforward revelation of the truth have, together, a cumulative power that will capture not only a reader's attention but also empathy and imagination. This is great for every aspiring writer and also a wonderful biography for teens struggling to discover their deepest, truest selves. |
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