Ebook {Epub PDF} Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

 · The main character is Jack Gantos, the writer of the book since this is based on his life. The antagonist might be the police since they catch Jack and Hamilton. Hamilton would definitely be the supporting character, and also Rick and Jack's Lawyer. Austin Fulmer. Show full text.  · Hole in My Life is an American autobiography of Jack Gantos and was published by Macmillan Publishers in In the book was honored with Michael. Teenage readers will appreciate Jack Gantos’s frankness in his jail memoir, Hole in My Life, says Keith Gray. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison/5().

YA Biography Book Review - book available now on Overdrive! Overview. In Hole in My Life, Jack Gantos recounts the story of his time as an idle teenager turned drug smuggler, including his eventual capture by the government and his time spent in Ashford Federal Penitentiary, in Kentucky. The biography serves as much as a lesson to readers in how Gantos turns his own life around as it does the story of how Gantos developed his writing style. Hole in My Life is an American autobiography of Jack Gantos and was published by Macmillan Publishers in In the book was honored with the Michael L. Printz Award and the same year became a winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal.

1 / look straight ahead. The prisoner in the photograph is me. The ID number is mine. The photo was taken in at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky. I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already—the bleakest year of my life—and I had more time ahead of me. Hole in My Life is an American autobiography of Jack Gantos and was published by Macmillan Publishers in In the book was honored with Michael. Teenage readers will appreciate Jack Gantos’s frankness in his jail memoir, Hole in My Life, says Keith Gray. In Hole in My Life, this prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison.