9780688161095

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

Ginger Rhodes; Richard Rhodes

ISBN 10: 068816109X / 0-688-16109-X
ISBN 13: 9780688161095
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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Synopsis:

Trying to Get Some Dignity: Stories of Triumph Over Childhood Abuse evolved from Richard Rhodess 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 books, a tribute to the canny resilience of the human spirit. Collectively, like breathtaking third-act reversals, they promised to lift the narrative from one of pain to one of triumph." Trying to Get Some Dignity will reaffirm readers' faith in their ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their own lives.


Review:

"An oral history of child abuse that reveals in numbing detail how its survivors managed to live through the experience and make decent adult lives for themselves....These are intelligent, resilient men and women whose strategies for surviving physical violence and neglect, sexual molestation, and verbal abuse are worthy of study."

Richard Rhodes

 

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