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A carregar... One Hundred Years of Dirtpor Rick Morton
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Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)994.06092History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere AustraliaClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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More than a memoir in that it refers to selected academic studies to support anecdotally based opinion, it sits at times uneasily between the two genres of memoir and journalism.
The story is good, though at times brutal, dealing with the intergenerational abuse of one generation to the next across four generations of Morton men raised in the way far out outback. At times I paused, contemplated and savoured his words:
“Then there is, of course, the not insignificant matter of what those astonishing distances do to the very idea of right and wrong. They bend light around the truth ... manage even to erase it.“
Speaking of how the father’s behaviour damages the son, whose behaviour then damages their son, Morton writes, “Desolation moved like a slinky through them all.” ( )