Allan Square / Shirley Murphy.
Allan Square / Shirley Murphy.
By
:
Murphy, Shirley, 1936-
Publication Date
:
2009
Publication Information
:
St. John's, N.L. : Flanker Press,
Physical Description
:
229 p. : ill.
Geographic Term
:
Allan Square (St. John's, N.L.) -- Biography.
St. John's (N.L.) -- Biography.
Summary
:
Allan Square is a dark yet humorous coming-of-age story about a young girl growing up during the 1940s and 1950s in one of the roughest neighbourhoods in St. John's. Shirley Murphy was only seven years old when her father died and life as she knew it changed forever. Poor and often hungry, she lived with an alcoholic stepfather, a combative mother, and four brothers who treated her the way only brothers can. In Allan Square, Shirley vividly describes attending wakes at the homes of the deceased (for the food), trading kisses with ushers for admission to the Capitol Theatre, soaking up the sights and sounds of Water Street, and surviving a dysfunctional family in the St. John's urban playground of Livingstone Street, Allan Square, Theatre Hill, and Queen's Road.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781897317372
General Note
:
"A St. John's memoir."
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Cartwright | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
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Conception Bay South | ADULT BIO NL - BASEMENT OVERFLOW | Adult Biography NL - Basement Overflow | B M95 | |
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Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
Musgrave Harbour - John B. Wheeler Public Library | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - Conservation Room | B M95 | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - NL Room | B M95 | |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Biography NL Reference - Provincial Collection | B M95 | |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B M95 | |
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