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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Body leaping backward

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Maureen Stanton

Sub title

memoir of a delinquent girlhood

Summary

"The "mesmerizing... daring and important"* storyof a risk-takinggirlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus III For Maureen Stanton'sproperCatholicmother,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 upheavalto America, and the linesbetween good and bad blurred,Stanton's once-solid family lost its way. Apromising younggirl with a smart mouth,Stanton turns watchfulas her parents separate and her now-singlemother descends into shoplifting, then grand larceny, anything tokeep a toehold in the middle class for her children.No longer scared by threats of Walpole Prison, Stantontoo 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, ofa town and a nationoverwhelmed ina time of change, and of how life-alteringa glimpse of a worldbigger than the one we come from canbe. "--, Provided by publisher"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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