{"product_id":"9781643620381","title":"Plastic : An Autobiography by Allison Cobb","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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304938975605,"sku":"9781643620381","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781643620381.jpg?v=1762796559","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781643620381","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}