All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir

This title has a release date of July 12, 2022. See below for more information.

Written by: Seán Hewitt

Publisher: Penguin Press

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Release Date

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir releases July 12, 2022

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July 12, 2022

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Release Date

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir released on July 12, 2022.

All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir Synopsis

“This book bears reading twice it is so beautiful. Readers seeking an elegant, profound memoir will find none better than this. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal (starred review)

“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 The Magician

By turns devastating and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature’s rising stars • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read

When 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.

All Down Darkness Wide is 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.

Delving 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.

Hewitt 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. All Down Darkness Wide illuminates 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.

Genre: Biographies, LGBTQ+, Memoir

Seán Hewitt
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