Seán Hewitt – All Down Darkness Wide (EPUB)
EPUB | 1.13 MB | 240 Pages
Author: Seán Hewitt
Language: English
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593300091
Subjects: Biography, Self-Help & Relationships, Social Sciences, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Peoples & Cultures – Biography, LGBT Studies, Medical Figures & Patient Narratives, Psychological Self-Help, LGBT Biographies, Patient Narratives, Biography – General & Miscellaneous, Depression & Mood Disorders, Gay Men Biographies, Mental/Psychological Disorder Patients – Biography, Other LGBT Biographies
Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed * A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read * Observer Book of the Week
By turns devastating and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature’s rising stars[/b]
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…
