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A vivid account of growing up as "poor white trash" in the race-torn rural South of the 1960s, with an alcoholic and largely absent father, an extraordinarily strong mother and a younger brother drawn into a cycle of poverty and crime.
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1999Harvill Pr · 352 pages · 9781860463976
- Paperback · English · 1998Harvill Press · 329 pages · 9781860463969
Childhood and youthJournalistsBiographyWorking class white peopleRural conditionsJournalistesBiographiesBlancs de la classe ouvrière











