All Day Is a Long Time

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David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida’s Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He’s hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the world around him – a sunken world where faith in anything is a privilege. He makes his way to a tenuous sobriety, but it isn’t until he takes a literature class at a community college that something within him ignites.

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SKU: 9781529367898 Category: Tag: Publisher/imprint : Sceptre
Page count : 256
Published on 15th September, 2022

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This is raw, semi-autobiographical fiction at its most painfully honest’ Observer

‘Brilliant, lyrical, hilarious, heartbreaking’ Cristina Garcìa

David is only fourteen when he first tries crack cocaine. He is instantly hooked, and spends the next decade fighting his way out of jail and rehab. Though he reaches a tenuous sobriety, it is only when he takes a literature class at the local community college that something within him ignites.

Set on Florida’s Gulf Coast, All Day Is a Long Time is a spectacular account of what it takes to return from the brink to the world around us. In this unforgettable debut, David Sanchez demonstrates the importance of hope, and the redemptive power of the written word.

‘A wonder, an important, essential new voice’ Justin Torres

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Weight 0.18 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 2.6 cm
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