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. 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. 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. For his part in the conspiracy, Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. 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. Hole In My Life 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. While his journey is difficult, his optimism and his writing eventually lead him to the proper path, and into a wonderful writing career. There are such things as second chances.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. 'Hole in my Life' by Jack Gantos is a story of the authors young adulthood, where his mistakes lead him to prison. 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. Becoming ever more determined to get to university, Jack discover ed that he didn't have to let one bad choice map out the course o f the rest of his life. 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. Denied a diary of his own by prison regulations, he wrot e his notes in a tiny hand between the lines of a Russian novel. 32 Total Resources 4 Awards View Text Complexity Discover Like Books. In prison, Jack d iscovered the library where he was able to indulge his passion fo r literature and continue to write the journal he'd started in ch ildhood.
It resulted in a year in a federal prison - and a lot of thinking time.
When he was offered $10,000 to sail a boatloa d of drugs to New York, he jumped at it. At 18 years old, he was doing a dead-end job on a C aribbean island, looking for adventure and a way to fund himself through university. Cover worn.Jack Gantos, bestselling author of the Joey Pigza books, had a peripatetic childhood around the US and t he Caribbean.
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