The Rat-pit

by PatrickMacGill (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.35

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $5.63

  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.