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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Shepard, Adam. Scratch beginnings. New York : Collins, c2008 (OCoLC)683216342 |
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| Named Person: | Adam Shepard |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Shepard |
| ISBN: | 9780061714368 0061714364 |
| OCLC Number: | 232720301 |
| Description: | xvi, 221 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : July 24-setting up -- Welcome to Crisis Ministries -- EasyLabor -- Another day, another dollar -- Big babies -- Sundays with George -- Hustle time -- Job hunting 101 with Professor Phil Coleman -- Put up or shut up -- "First and last day" -- Adventures in moving -- Movin' on up -- Workers' consternation -- Winter with bubble gum -- Culture shocked -- Fighting for respect -- One last move -- Epilogue : a year later: a didactic look at what I learned and where we go from here. |
| Responsibility: | Adam Shepard. |
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Abstract:
Recounts the experiences of the author, a college graduate, as he spends one year living as a homeless person and learns valuable lessons about what it takes to break out of the cycle of poverty in the United States.
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