Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781643620381
- ISBN-10: 164362038X
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publish Date: April 2021
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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