The Rat-pit (Working Class Biography)

by PatrickMacGill (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1983

  $17.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $5.10

  This text tells the tale of the struggle of Donegal girl Norah Ryan against poverty at the turn of the century. The name is from a lodging house where human beings, pinched and poverty-stricken and ground down with a weight of oppression, are hemmed up like the plague-stricken in a pest-house.