{"product_id":"dark-land-memoir-of-a-secret-childhood-9781589881891","title":"Dark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A granular, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Put this beautiful book on your shelf between Frank Conroy's \u003ci\u003eStop-Time \u003c\/i\u003eand Tobias Wolff's\u003ci\u003e This Boy's Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--William Giraldi, author of\u003ci\u003e The Hero's Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Of all the memoirs and autobiographies I've ever read--literary or otherwise--\u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e is among the very best . . . [A] genuinely astonishing achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e--John Wilson, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis powerful memoir from poet Kevin Hart traces his difficult childhood as a \"backward boy\" in a poor part of London, a disorienting move to tropical Australia, and the secrets he and his family kept from one another.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark-Land: Memoir of a Secret Childhood \u003c\/i\u003eis Kevin Hart's searing, yet at times hilarious, narrative of his first thirteen years. It is a story of survival and transformation, of deception and recovery, and it passes from a frightening childhood in the East-End of London to a new and bewildering life in sub-tropical Australia. Throughout, Hart draws on John Bunyan's evocation of \"Dark-Land\" in \u003ci\u003ePilgrim's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in order to seek the Celestial City. But \u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e is no allegory. We see Hart's hidden inner life, his family's penchant for keeping secrets, and their illusions about the nature of their shared past. We see Hart grow from being the despair of his teachers in a rough primary school to experiencing a \"conversion\" in a math class in Brisbane, Australia, which turned him into a Christian, a poet, and an academic.Written in elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, \u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the story of a convert to Christianity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16410562\"\u003eKevin Hart\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589881891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589881893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO018000\"\u003eReligious\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Hart\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eleven poetry collections including \u003ci\u003eWild Track: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBarefoot\u003c\/i\u003e. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eLands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Chicago Press, 2023), which represents his Gifford Lectures for 2019-2023, and \u003ci\u003eContemplation: The Movements of the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (Columbia University Press, 2024). He is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, and he lives in Charlottesville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43827645055115,"sku":"9781589881891","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_730783d5-69c8-434c-9f70-2b57b8bbfa7a.jpg?v=1755540333","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/dark-land-memoir-of-a-secret-childhood-9781589881891","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}