Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Status
Hermitage - Adult Biography
B S7925b
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B S7925b
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xv, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215).
Description
"The 'mesmerizing... daring and important' story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town--Andre Dubus III. For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ('If you don't behave, I'll put you in Walpole Prison!'). But as the 1970s brought upheaval to America, and the lines between good and bad blurred, Stanton's once-solid family lost its way. A promising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchful as her parents separate and her now-single mother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything to keep a toehold in the middle class for her children. No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stanton too slips into delinquency--vandalism, breaking and entering--all while nearly erasing herself through addiction to angel dust, a homemade form of PCP that swept through her hometown in the wake of Nixon's 'total war' on drugs. Body Leaping Backward is the haunting and beautifully drawn story of a self-destructive girlhood, of a town and a nation overwhelmed in a time of change, and of how life-altering a glimpse of a world bigger than the one we come from can be"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stanton, M. (2019). Body leaping backward: memoir of a delinquent girlhood . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stanton, Maureen. 2019. Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stanton, Maureen. Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stanton, Maureen. Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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