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Clean : a story of addiction, recovery and the removal of stubborn stains
- Title
- Clean : a story of addiction, recovery and the removal of stubborn stains / Michele Kirsch.
- Author
- Kirsch, Michele
- Publication
- London : Short Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-1440 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 288 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- When she leaves home in New York to go to college in Boston in the 1970s, Michele Kirsch - an anxious 19-year-old, with a growing valium dependency - starts taking on cleaning jobs to help make ends meet. It gives her a taste of the life she thinks is in store: nice big house, teenagers' music blaring from their rooms, a crock pot sizzling away in the kitchen... And yet, when she finally does have something like that life, as a wife and mother in London, she is the one blaring music from her room, necking drink and drugs and making an almighty mess of her own home and family. Cleaning other people's houses, eventually, is the only option left. At 50 years old, post rehab, living alone in a Hackney bedsit, Michele finds herself finishing her working life as she had begun, 'in a dumb job that you do when you can't really do anything else'...
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1440
- ISBN
- 9781780723815
- 1780723814
- OCLC
- 1091228867
- Author
- Kirsch, Michele, author.
- Title
- Clean : a story of addiction, recovery and the removal of stubborn stains / Michele Kirsch.
- Publisher
- London : Short Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1440