One Hundred Years of Dirt
Author(s): Rick Morton
Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.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.
Staff Notes: Journalist Rick Morton turns his gaze inward in 'One Hundred Years of Dirt,' a seering account of family trauma, isolation, and survival. This is a book about the outsider, set in rural and remote Australia. A fascinating portrait of a person, a family, and a nation.
Review by Charlotte
Product Information
General Fields
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- : MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
- : MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
- : 203.0
- : 27 February 2023
- : 197mm x 129mm x 197mm
- : 01 June 2023
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rick Morton
- : Paperback
- : 070.92
- : 1
- : BM