Documents the author\'s \'first contact with poverty\'.
This title shows a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris\' vile \'Hotel X\', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more..
Documents the author\'s \'first contact with poverty\'