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2002
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Available Copies: 10 (of 10) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: 199 p. ; 21 cm.
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Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Summary: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. Keywords in Context ... Hole in my life / Jack Gantos. ...
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2007
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Available Copies: 1 (of 1) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: Downloadable audio file
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Publisher, Date: [New York, N.Y.] : Listening Library, 2007. Summary: In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer desperate for adventure, college cash, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents finally caught up to them in a bust at the Chelsea Hotel. For his part in the conspiracy, the twenty-year-old Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in my life, this acclaimed author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one intense moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a smuggler, and his time in prison. But running just beneath the action is the story of how Gantos--once he found himself locked up in a small, yellow-walled cell--moved from wanting to be a writer to writing, and how this newfound dedication helped him endure the worst experience of his life. Keywords in Context ... Hotel. For his part in the conspiracy, the twenty-year-old Gantos was sentenced to serve up to six years in prison. In Hole in my life, this acclaimed author of over thirty books for young people ...
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2006
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Available Copies: 1 (of 1) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: 4 sound discs (ca. 65 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Edition: Library ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Random House/Listening Library, p2006. Summary: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. Keywords in Context ... Hole in my life [sound recording (book on CD)] / Jack Gantos. ...
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1996
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Available Copies: 1 (of 1) Current number of holds: 0
Physical Description: 281 p. ; 22 cm.
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Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: Bridgehampton, N.Y. : Bridge Works Pub. ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, 1996. Summary: Zip Six is the story of the struggle of Ray Jakes, a young hashish smuggler, to survive the cruelties of prison life - and of the freedom that follows. It is told with the authenticity of Midnight Express or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - an authenticity in part born of the author's own experience as a Federal prisoner in his youth. Ray is sent to New York's West Street prison. He gets a job working in the prison hospital and becomes friends with an Elvis Presley impersonator doing time for setting up Elvis charity scams. Ray and Elvis are recruited by the warden to organize a Christmas concert. They are such a hit they are sent on tour through eastern Federal penitentiaries. Unknown to Ray, Elvis has made a deal with the warden and after the tour he is sent back to Memphis on parole. Ray, left behind and despondent over his own prospects for parole, attempts to escape. This fails and he is further punished. But he has an ace in the hole. He has hidden the x-ray proof that a criminal cop, due to testify against other cops, was brutally beaten by the authorities. He trades this x-ray for a parole date. Once out, Ray gets back in touch with Elvis and jumps parole to join Elvis in Memphis. Elvis has given up his impersonation business and has gone legitimate. He recommends that Ray also find some stability in his life. Ray decides to flee to Canada where he can start over. But a final betrayal awaits him. Keywords in Context ... Zip six : a novel / Jack Gantos. ... He recommends that Ray also find some stability in his life. Ray decides to flee to Canada where he can start over. But a ... fails and he is further punished. But he has an ace in the hole. He has hidden the x-ray proof that a criminal cop, due to ...
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