Gal: A True Life by Bolton, Ruthie - 1994

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Foreword by Josephine Humphreys. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. White half cloth gilt titled with tan paper-wrapped baords, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Interior fine also. An autobiography written under the pseudonym Ruthie Bolton. The names of all people and many places have been changed; in all other respects this is the author's true life, as told out loud to the editor, Josephine Humphreys. The story of a young girls born in South Carolina in 1961, her mother 13, her father unknown; raised by her grandparents until her grandmother was beaten to death by grandfather, who then raised Ruthie, or Gal, as she was called by her grandfather, who beat her also. Her tragic life is told with eloquent simplicity, is painful and ageless. And she mastered life after all. 275 pages. 8.25 x 6.25 inches. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1994.