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the wreckage of an American family
By Douglas, Geoffrey
- ISBN
- 978-0-80501-737-3
- Publisher
- New York : H. Holt, 1992.
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Reviewed on October 1, 1992
"At a little after two in the afternoon on the last Saturday of September 1953, two days before the start of my fourth-grade year, . . . I took the paper to my mother's room and found her dead.'' Douglas would be 16 years old before he learned that his mother killed herself and over 40 before he discovered "all the miseries that drove her to it.'' In this moving, eloquent memoir cum social ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
