- Poor, Mental health, Criminals, Prisoners
"Life at the Bottom offers a searing account - probably the best yet published - of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does.".
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Theodore Dalrymple
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781566633826
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