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 Pavement for My Pillow - Chris Kitch
 Pavement for My Pillow - Chris Kitch ... GollanczNewest Review: ... in with them, and later her half-brother and half-sister were born. The story talks us through her miserable childhood, and ... more ... in particular her abusive stepfather, and how she didn't fit in with her family, the poverty in the area in which she lived, her lack of friends, and her miserable time at school - being punished for being disruptive because she was bright. However, Chris did manage to get a place at a grammar school and although this could have been what turned her life around, things gradually seemed to get worse until she was kicked out.
A lot of the story focuses on her sexuality, which as a lesbian Chris struggled with, an...more |
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Pavement for My Pillow - Chris Kitch: Another tragic lifestory, with a misleading title... (1021 words)
by - written on 03/11/09 (Very useful, 122 readings)
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---Intro--- I've just finished reading another of these 'sob story' autobiographies which I have a tendency to read (I fail to understand why I read them). For some unknown reason I actually chose to receive this particular book from someone off BookMooch so it cost me nothing. ---The Book--- "Pavement for my Pillow" (subtitled "The Astonishing Story of One Woman's Climb from pitiful bag lady to scholar and writer") is essentially about the author's (Chris Kitch) struggle with alcohol and drug addiction and how she overcame it. The book was written in 1996 (so to be fair to the author it was written before ... Read the complete review
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