Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of The 1960s

Name: Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of The 1960s
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ISBN: 9781609806149

ISBN-10: 160980614X

ISBN-13: 9781609806149

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Authors: Martha Long

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After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent are steady, predictable, safe--everything that her life had not been prior to being sent away. But as she says, "You can have a full belly, but your heart can be very empty." Put to back-breaking work by the nuns, and treated cruelly by the other children--they've marked her as a "street kid"--Martha works hard, keeps to herself, and steals away when she can with a cherished book. But Martha pines…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 4/14/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.18" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.682
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.