Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered - Rilegato

John Devane

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0340962755 ISBN 13: 9780340962756

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton General, 2009

Riassunto

John was only a baby when his father died. His mother struggled desperately to bring up five kids alone but her own despair led her to alcoholism and blind rages. John's childhood was a nightmare of neglect and beatings, but when he was nine, things became infinitely worse. Preyed on by his mother's lodgers, John was sold into prostitution on the streets around the docks in his home town of Limerick. By the time he was 16, the legacy of pain from his childhood had left him suicidally depressed but a stint in the army and a determintion to escape his past gave John the courage to make a better life for himself. He trained as a lawyer and channelled his deep need to pursue justice for himself into his work for others. He built a reputation for defending the criminals of Limerick when nobody else would. One day, the unthinkable happened and he had to make a choice about whether to defend one of his childhood abusers. This is the extraordinary story of a life nearly destroyed by horrors and the hard choices one man made in his fight to recover himself.

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Descrizione del libro:

A little boy is abused, beaten and sold into prostitution on the streets of Limerick. Twenty years later, now a maverick lawyer, he defends the man who abused him. This is the extraordinary story of a long battle for justice.

L'autore:

John Devane still practices as a lawyer in his home town of Limerick, Ireland. He is married with a family.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton General
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0340962755
• ISBN 13: 9780340962756
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304