Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood
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Author
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781328900234 (hardback), 1328900231 (hardback)
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 24 cm
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Street Date
1907
Language
English
ISBN
9781328900234 (hardback), 1328900231 (hardback)
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
For Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison wasa way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't behave, I'll put you in Walpole Prison!"). But asthe 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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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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East Hanover Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography | BIOG STANTON | Available |
Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction | 364.36 | Available |
Rockaway Township Library - Adult Nonfiction | 364.36 STA | Available |
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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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