Description
| Product ID: | 9781643620381 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Plastic |
| Subtitle: | An Autobiography |
| Authors: | Author: Allison Cobb |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Material culture, Material culture, The environment, The environment |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us 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 Bomb 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Nightboat Books |
| Publisher Name: | Nightboat Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-03 |
