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Dark-land : memoir of a secret childhood
Hart, Kevin, 1954-2024
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This is is 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 Pilgrim's Progress, the place Valiant-for-Truth leaves in order to seek the Celestial City. But Dark-Land 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.Written in elegant, lucid prose, without a trace of sentimentality, Dark-Land is a memoir of a working-class childhood, a narrative of a migrant, and the story of a convert to Christianity.
Dark-land : memoir of a secret childhood / Kevin Hart.
Hart, Kevin, 1954-, author
Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2024.©2024
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781589881891 (pbk)9781589881891
A821.3821.3
PR9619.3.H3336
English
564271
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 821.3 HAR | Available |