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One Hundred Years of Dirt

One Hundred Years of Dirt

5 Audio CDs Included

by Rick Morton
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 28/04/2019

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A brutally raw, beautifully written, remarkably brave memoir about family, trauma and, above all, love.

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.

Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction.

One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance.

ISBN:
9781489494078
9781489494078
Category:
Social & cultural anthropology
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
28-04-2019
Publisher:
Bolinda Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
5
Dimensions (mm):
134x146mm
Weight:
0.16kg

'I think it's terrific and I was very moved by it.' Tim Winton

'One Hundred Years of Dirt had me spellbound from the get-go. Morton is a crack storyteller and his words and stories are infused with genuine compassion. It's a magnificent book, the clarity of it is inspiring.' Christos Tsolakis

'... a compelling family saga, cataloguing violence and aggression stretching across generations.' The Sydney Morning Herald

Rick Morton

Rick Morton has been a journalist and writer for over 14 years. His first book, One Hundred Years of Dirt, was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2019 National Biography Award, longlisted for the 2018 Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the 2019 ABIA Awards.

Rick is the winner of the 2013 Kennedy Award for Young Journalist of the Year and the 2017 Kennedy Award for Outstanding Columnist. In 2019, Rick left The Australian where he worked as the social affairs writer with a particular focus on social policy and is now a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper.

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