Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9781845963132
ISBN-13 : 184596313X
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Book Synopsis Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by : Martha Long

Download or read book Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes written by Martha Long and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950's Dublin, Martha grew up in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. Here she tells the story of her early life and recreates a lost era in which the shadow of the Catholic Church loomed large and if you didn't work, you didn't eat.


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