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“Exquisitely written.” —Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed * A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read * Observer Book of the Week By turns devastating and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature’s rising stars When Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis. All Down Darkness Wide is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it’s like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one’s deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure and what it cannot. Delving into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to a sacred grotto in the Pyrenees, it is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Haunted by the rites of Catholicism and spectres of shame, it is nevertheless marked by an insistent se

Who reads All Down Darkness Wide : A Memoir?

Author

Seán Hewitt

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593300084

Category

self-help

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14