Plastic

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An Autobiography

By Allison Cobb

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Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb intertwines a personal story with global issues, sparked by a seemingly mundane plastic car part. The narrative explores the destructive culture of consumption and waste, linking plastic pollution to climate change, nuclear history, and systemic racism. Traversing time from ancient Phoenicia to modern Alabama, it uncovers the complex, often unsettling ties that bind humanity to the environment and technology.
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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643620381

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 June 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Allison Cobb (pronouns she/her) is the author of After We All Died, Plastic: an autobiography, Born2, and Green-Wood. Cobb's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, and many other journals. She was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and National Poetry Series; has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa; and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-hosts The Switch reading, art, and performance series and performs in the collaboration Suspended Moment.