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Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood Cover Image Book Book

Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood

Stanton, Maureen (author.).

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. Apromising young girl with a smart mouth, Stanton turns watchfulas 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, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781328900234
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xv, 218 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

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Subject: Stanton, Maureen
Female juvenile delinquents -- Massachusetts -- Walpole -- Biography
Drug abuse and crime -- Massachusetts -- Walpole
Walpole (Mass.) -- Social conditions
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Castlegar Public Library 364.36092 STA (Text) 35146002150274 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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