I was a working-class kid in a small working-class New England mill town, and my father worked in a chemical factory in the even bleaker and more Dickensian factory town next door.

• 我是个新英格兰矿区工人家庭的孩子，父亲在邻镇化工厂上班，那个镇比我们家所在的地方还要荒凉些。