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One Hundred Years of Dirt

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One Hundred Years of Dirt

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Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2019

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.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Country

Australia

Date

30 July 2018

Pages

200

ISBN

9780522873153

Shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2019

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.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Melbourne University Press

Country

Australia

Date

30 July 2018

Pages

200

ISBN

9780522873153

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