The ruby slippers
Subtitle: a novel
By: Keir Alexander
Publisher: Corsair
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781472108074; 9781472108111
Subjects: Homeless women; Accidents; Fiction
Description: Old Rose, the bag lady, shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Mr Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help - but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed inside her hulk.