Welfare Brat - 9781582345895
Un libro in lingua di Mary Childers edito da Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2006
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“Exceptional…A classic American success story, Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick come true, told here utterly without self-congratulation or sentimentality.”—Washington Post
Mary Childers's intimate and frank memoir tells the story of growing up in a family in which five out of seven children dropped out of high school and four different fathers dropped out of sight. With this lyrical and often humorous examination of how she became the first person in her family to attend college, Childers illuminates the causes of welfare dependence, generational poverty, and submission to a popular culture that values sexuality more than self-esteem and self-sufficiency.
Mary Childers's intimate and frank memoir tells the story of growing up in a family in which five out of seven children dropped out of high school and four different fathers dropped out of sight. With this lyrical and often humorous examination of how she became the first person in her family to attend college, Childers illuminates the causes of welfare dependence, generational poverty, and submission to a popular culture that values sexuality more than self-esteem and self-sufficiency.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Welfare Brat
- Sottotitolo: A Memoir
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Mary Childers
- Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Collana: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 02 Maggio '06
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Women, White New York (State) New York Biography Welfare recipients New York (State) New York Biography Urban poor New York (State) New York Biography
- Pagine: 263
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 139 x 12
- ISBN-10: 1582345899
- EAN-13: 9781582345895