E-audiobook
With or without you [electronic resource] : a memoir / Domenica Ruta.
A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation--the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art--via a classic film or a classical education--could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenica's unconventional coming of age--a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit '90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385360982 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0385360983 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 12 min., 53 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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| Subject: | Ruta, Domenica. Children of drug addicts > Massachusetts > Biography. Drug addicts > Massachusetts > Biography. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
