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Plastic : An Autobiography.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Allison.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Nightboat Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the Atomic BombIn 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 narrativesfrom ancient Phoenicia to Alabamathe book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781643621029
- 1643621025
- OCLC:
- 1247084667
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