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Published 30-07-2018
ISBN 9780522873160
Pages 200
Subjects Autobiography: general True stories: general Drugs and alcohol: social aspects News media and journalism Family & relationships
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One Hundred Years of Dirt

Rick Morton

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Published 30-07-2018
ISBN 9780522873160
Pages 200
Subjects Autobiography: general True stories: general Drugs and alcohol: social aspects News media and journalism Family & relationships
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Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've 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 Morton's 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.