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    <title>Half a life</title>
    <subTitle>a memoir</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ciment, Jill</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1953-</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Crown</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1996</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>210 p ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>The author describes her family's move to Los Angeles; her father's loss of sanity and brutalization of his family; her careers as a gang girl, professional forger, and porno model; and her marriage to an older man</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Jill Ciment.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
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    <topic>Childhood and youth</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women authors, American</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
    <topic>Biography</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Children of the mentally ill</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <geographic>Los Angeles</geographic>
    <topic>Biography</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Families</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <geographic>Los Angeles</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Los Angeles (Calif.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PR9199.3.C499 Z465 1996</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">813/.54 B</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0517701715</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">96004011</identifier>
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