Cobb Allison - Plastic An Autobiography - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Plastic An Autobiography
Author(s): Cobb Allison
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Barcode: 9781643620381
Pages: 352 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Category: The Environment