One Hundred Years Of Dirt

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Publisher Place: Carlton
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: Reprint

Description: 191 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Morton is a crack storyteller and his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion. Its a magnificent book, the clarity of it is inspiring." Christos Tsiolkas Social mobility is not a train you get to board after youve scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress. Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Mortons family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance.

ISBN: 9780522873153