Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes A Memoir of Dublin in The 1950s

Name: Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes A Memoir of Dublin in The 1950s
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ISBN: 9781609804145

ISBN-10: 1609804147

ISBN-13: 9781609804145

Edition: 2012

Authors: Martha Long

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When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only thing keeping food on the table. Jackser is a master of paranoid anger and outburst, keeping the children in an unheated tenement, unable to go to school, at the ready for his unpredictable rages. Then Martha is sent by Jackser to a man he knows in exchange for the price of a few cigarettes. She is nine. She is filthy, lice-ridden, outcast. Martha and Ma escape to England, but for an itinerant Irishwoman finding…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 11/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Martha Long was born in Dublin in the early 1950s and still lives there today. She has written seven critically acclaimed volumes of autobiography, including the bestselling Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes. Run, Lily, Run is her fiction debut.