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

by Ginger Rhodes and Richard Rhodes

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068816109X
• ISBN13: 9780688161095
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"