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Plastic: An Autobiography
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ISBN13: 9781643620381
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Winner of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
Plastic: An Autobiography explores how technology, sprung from desire, draws all beings into its net, and asks how to live justly within its grasp.
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.
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