Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse

by Ginger & Richard Rhodes, Richard Rhodes, Ginger Rhodes

Book Overview

Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse evolved from Richard Rhodes's memoir, A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood , in which he told of the abuse he endured at the hands of his stepmother. Here is an oral history of child abuse--physical, mental, and sexual--and how its survivors dealt with it. While talking with victims of abuse, the authors found that "each strategy for survival] was original, imaginative, off the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688140963
• ISBN13: 9780688140960
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"