Bibliograph

Body leaping backward, memoir of a delinquent girlhood, Maureen Stanton

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Label

Body leaping backward, memoir of a delinquent girlhood, Maureen Stanton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Body leaping backward

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Maureen Stanton

Sub title

memoir of a delinquent girlhood

Summary

"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-singlemother 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 verwhelmed 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

Target audience

adult

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