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Plastic : an autobiography / Allison Cobb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Allison, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plastics--Environmental aspects.
- Plastics.
- Plastics--Deterioration.
- Ecology.
- Environmental policy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Pollution.
- Cobb, Allison.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In Plastic: An Autobiography, Cobb's obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste, climate change, nuclear technologies, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives - from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama - the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- I The Thing
- Story p. 11
- Zero p. 14
- Nothing p. 15
- The Impurity p. 16
- The Mariner p. 21
- The Curtain p. 26
- Car Part p. 29
- Fragment p. 31
- The Ring p. 35
- Loss p. 37
- The Albatross p. 42
- Mauve p. 45
- The Photograph p. 48
- Gyre p. 51
- White Whale p. 54
- Disappearance p. 57
- Infinity p. 60
- Gush p. 63
- Desire p. 69
- Desire p. 72
- Resurrection p. 76
- Garbage p. 79
- Refuse p. 84
- Adventure p. 87
- Odyssey p. 93
- II Refuse
- Refusal p. 99
- The Computer p. 103
- The Consumers p. 107
- Lament p. 111
- Desire p. 116
- Joy p. 118
- Loss p. 123
- Grief p. 127
- Remember p. 130
- Zero p. 133
- Radar p. 136
- Job p. 139
- Wind p. 143
- To Live p. 146
- The Thinker p. 151
- Seed p. 157
- Here p. 159
- Haunt p. 163
- Backyard p. 167
- Sorry p. 170
- Butch p. 173
- Decline p. 179
- Mike p. 180
- The Living p. 185
- III The Lives
- Freeport p. 189
- Lights p. 194
- Risk Factor p. 201
- Heartland p. 203
- Joy p. 208
- Remember p. 213
- Joy p. 218
- Dis-courage p. 222
- We'll Be Here p. 228
- Here p. 231
- Tired p. 235
- Life p. 239
- Blanks p. 243
- Silence p. 248
- Alive p. 253
- Trust p. 258
- Hole p. 262
- Boy p. 266
- Circle p. 268
- Pulse p. 271
- The Tomb p. 275
- Breathing p. 278
- Burn p. 282.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781643620381
- 164362038X
- OCLC:
- 1144104822
- Publisher Number:
- 99987420770
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