Bibliograph

Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes, a memoir of Dublin in the 1950s, Martha Long

Type

Label

Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes, a memoir of Dublin in the 1950s, Martha Long

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes

Oclc number

769424524

Responsibility statement

Martha Long

Sub title

a memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

Summary

Born illegitimate to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. The author tells the story of her early life without an ounce of self-pity

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