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Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
- Title
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood / Maureen Stanton.
- Author
- Stanton, Maureen
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-6935 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- "An arresting story of a risk-taking girlhood, set against the cultural turmoil of the 1970s in Walpole, Massachusetts, an 'every town' with a famous state prison. 'Mesmerizing . . . daring and important.'" -- Andre Dubus III"--
- Subjects
- Female juvenile delinquents
- Drug abuse and crime
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- Autobiographies
- Walpole (Mass.) > Social conditions
- Drug abuse and crime > Massachusetts > Walpole
- Massachusetts > Walpole
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Female juvenile delinquents > Massachusetts > Walpole > Biography
- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- Stanton, Maureen
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215).
- Contents
- Prologue: You can't even get out -- Here we are living -- Tilt -- Operation pocketbook -- Conti la Monty -- Clarity and logic -- Hello world -- Work-study -- Speech acts -- Stop the dust -- Body leaping backward.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6935
- ISBN
- 9781328900234
- 1328900231
- LCCN
- 2018033154
- OCLC
- 1045480626
- Author
- Stanton, Maureen, author.
- Title
- Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood / Maureen Stanton.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215).
- Other Form:
- Online version: Stanton, Maureen, author. Body leaping backward Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9781328900364 (DLC) 2018052035
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6935