{"product_id":"all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir","title":"All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature - Named a Best Book of 2022 by \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus, Booklist, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNamed a Best Book of July by \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed -\u003c\/i\u003e A \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read - \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Week \u003cb\u003e- Lammy Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The most beautiful prose I've read in years.\"--Alexander Chee, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003e- \"Rapturous...Hewitt beautifully illuminates his own darknesses so that we might also see our own.\"\u003cb\u003e--Melissa Febos, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exquisitely written.\"--Claire Messud, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seán Hewitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46045680009285,"sku":"BS-LIB-300084","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9780593300084-HD.jpg?v=1792294750","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}