{"product_id":"all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir","title":"All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature - Named a Best Book of 2022 by \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus, Booklist, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNamed a Best Book of July by \u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed -\u003c\/i\u003e A \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read - \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Week \u003cb\u003e- Lammy Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The most beautiful prose I've read in years.\"--Alexander Chee, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003e- \"Rapturous...Hewitt beautifully illuminates his own darknesses so that we might also see our own.\"\u003cb\u003e--Melissa Febos, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exquisitely written.\"--Claire Messud, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Down Darkness Wide \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelving 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHewitt 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. \u003ci\u003eAll Down Darkness Wide \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates 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.","brand":"Seán Hewitt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46348713427180,"sku":"9780593300084","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593300084.jpg?v=1744136968","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/all-down-darkness-wide-a-memoir","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}