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Welfare brat : a memoir / Mary Childers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childers, Mary, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Childers, Mary, 1952---Childhood and youth.
- Childers, Mary.
- Childers, Mary, 1952---Family.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.).
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women, White--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Women, White.
- Welfare recipients--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Welfare recipients.
- Poor--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Poor.
- Inner cities--New York (State)--New York.
- Inner cities.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 263 pages.)
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2005.
- Contents:
- Cherry pie
- Sleepwalking toward the horizon
- Pants and jackets
- Triumph and shame
- Coney Island
- Moving
- Miracles
- Shakespeare
- Fresh air fund
- Huddled couples
- Birthdays
- A new apartment
- The watch
- Grand concourse
- Belonging
- Thigh gliding
- Lessons
- Carnival secrets
- Malcolm X and the Scarlet A
- Mace
- Summer camp
- Mother's helper
- Serendipity
- Ed Sullivan
- Advice
- Rumors and riots
- School strikes
- Sex and the Inner City
- Envelopes
- Dead man's float
- Rapprochement
- Country music, 1982.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781596917415 (electronic bk.)
- 1596917415 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99995638235
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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