All Down Darkness Wide
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All Down Darkness Wide
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All Down Darkness Wide
All Down Darkness Wide is a luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet Seán Hewitt. It's a story of love, heartbreak, and coming of age, alongside a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma.
When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. However, as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him.
From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope.
All Down Darkness Wide is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a fearless exploration of a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.
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All Down Darkness Wide is highly praised as a significant addition to Irish queer literature, commended for its profound meditation on love, heartbreak, and sorrow. Critics have lauded it as a beautifully written memoir, showcasing Seán Hewitt's exceptional talent and original prose.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529114478
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 August 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Sean Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of the poetry collection Tongues of Fire, which received the Laurel Prize and was shortlisted for many awards, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and for the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Polari Book Prize. Hewitt lectures at Trinity College Dublin, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2022, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
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