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Uniform Title Quarto de despejo. English

Title Child of the dark : the diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus / translated from the Portuguese by David St. Clair ; with a new afterword by Robert M. Levine.

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New York : Signet Classics/New American Library, [2003]

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	306.098161 J499Bj 2003	---	Available
Axe Kansas Collection Harmon	306.098161 J499Bj 2003 c.2	---	Lib Use Only

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Description	xv, 187 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Note	Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1962.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 188).
Summary	A first-hand account of life in the streets of Sao Paulo from 1955 to 1960, details the plight of an artist, writer and single mother of three children who, while living in a hovel, supported her family by digging through the garbage for paper and scraps to sell.
Subject	Jesus, Carolina Maria de.
	São Paulo (Brazil) -- Social conditions.
	Poor -- Brazil -- São Paulo.
	Jesus, Carolina Maria de. (OCoLC)fst00119583
	Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
	Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Brazil -- São Paulo. (OCoLC)fst01205761
Genre/Form	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Autobiographies.
Added Author	St. Clair, David, translator.
ISBN	0451627318
	9780451627315
	0451529103
	9780451529107