All Day Is a Long Time

"Urgent, sharp and expansive...this exceptional debut is not a cautionary tale about the perils of drugs, but...
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Author: David Sanchez
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All Day Is a Long Time by Sanchez, David

All Day Is a Long Time

$58.85

All Day Is a Long Time

$58.85
Author: David Sanchez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"Urgent, sharp and expansive...this exceptional debut is not a cautionary tale about the perils of drugs, but it certainly is the story of so many people right now, and it somehow leaves us with hope. What's more, the rare if dark gems found along its ocean floors, all sharp and brittle and made of base desire, let us glean a part of what's at the heart of addiction itself." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times


For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self


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.


All Day is a Long Time is a spectacular, raw account of growing up and managing, against every expectation, to carve out a place for hope. We see what it means, and what it takes, to come back from a place of little control--to map ourselves on the world around, and beyond, us. David Sanchez's debut resounds with real force and demonstrates the redemptive power of the written word.



Author: David Sanchez
Publisher: Harper
Published: 01/18/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780358572015


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2021 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 09/20/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Booklist 01/01/2022 pg. 32
Shelf Awareness 01/21/2022

About the Author
DAVID SANCHEZ is the recipient of a James A. Michener Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of Miami, a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship, and a Tin House Scholarship in 2018. All Day Is a Long Time is his first novel.

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