{"product_id":"all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir-9780593300084","title":"All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book bears reading twice it is so beautiful. Readers seeking an elegant, profound memoir will find none better than this. Highly recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A beautiful, complex, and textured meditation on love, on growing up gay, on becoming a poet . . . I was engrossed . . . I woke in the morning fully enclosed by it, as though I had been dreaming it.\" --Colm Tóibín, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns devastating and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature's rising stars - A \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Down Darkness Wide \u003c\/i\u003eis a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure and what it cannot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelving into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to a sacred grotto in the Pyrenees, it is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Haunted by the rites of Catholicism and spectres of shame, it is nevertheless marked by an insistent search for beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHewitt captures transcendent moments in nature with exquisite lyricism, honours the power of reciprocated desire and provides a master class in the incredible force of unsparing specificity. \u003ci\u003eAll Down Darkness Wide \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates a path ahead for queer literature and for the literature of heartbreak, striking a piercing and resonant chord for all who trace Hewitt's dauntless footsteps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593300084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Se\u0026#225;n Hewitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132518142133,"sku":"9780593300084","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3406937b-f93d-4084-b553-5d5ff017d90c.jpg?v=1652814113","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir-9780593300084","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}