{"product_id":"dark-land-9781589881891","title":"Dark-Land","description":"\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A granular, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emeditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed BOOK OF THE YEAR by \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark-Land \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilgrim’s Progress\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in order to seek the Celestial City. But \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"TxBrp3\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark-Land\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the story of a convert to Christianity.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Hart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286744805627,"sku":"9781589881891","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781589881891.jpg?v=1772485120","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dark-land-9781589881891","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}