Mickey
The Giveaway Boy
Will be published approx. on 15. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-947041-31-8 (ISBN)
Description
By the age of 25, Mickey's mother had born five sons. By the age of 30, she'd gotten rid of them all.
For nine-year-old Mickey, the early fifties were not the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy of love and security. Instead, they were years of abandonment, unimaginable cruelty, and virtual slavery. This memoir reveals Mickey's devastating experiences of being handed off from one abusive person to another ... all in the name of survival.
For nine-year-old Mickey, the early fifties were not the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy of love and security. Instead, they were years of abandonment, unimaginable cruelty, and virtual slavery. This memoir reveals Mickey's devastating experiences of being handed off from one abusive person to another ... all in the name of survival.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Running Wild, LLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-947041-31-8 (9781947041318)
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Persons
Robert M. Shafer (1942 - 2020) grew up as a Chicago slum boy and abandoned child. Robert served 1960-1964 in the US Navy and worked thirty-five years as a film/video editor in San Francisco. His childhood experiences inspired much of his writing. Robert is the author of Mickey: The Giveaway Boy and was recognized in 2020 as a Redwood Writers Poet of Merit.