All Day Is A Long Time - Softcover

Sanchez, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529367891 ISBN 13: 9781529367898

Publisher: Sceptre, 2022

Synopsis

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

'Brilliant, lyrical, hilarious, heartbreaking' Cristina García

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

About this title

About the Author

David Sanchez is the recipient of a Michener Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of Miami, a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, and a Tin House Scholarship in 2018. He lives in Tampa, Florida. All Day Is A Long Time is his first novel.

From the Back Cover

All Day is a Long Time is a spectacular, raw account of growing up and managing, against the odds, to carve out a place for hope.

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. He tries crack cocaine for the first time and is 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.

All Day is a Long Time is a spectacular, raw account of growing up and managing, against the odds, to carve out a place for hope. David Sanchez's debut resounds with real force and demonstrates the redemptive power of the written word.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529367891
• ISBN 13: 9781529367898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256