Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
An environmental memoir that traces the impact of pollution on the body and memory, linking personal experience to place and health.
作品情報
It reexamines the injuries of environmental harm through both personal and social history.
Pollution, memory, and attachment to place converge in a study of how the body absorbs environmental change.
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Counterpoint
- 発売日
- 2001-05-22
- ページ数
- 256ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781582431161
- ISBN-10
- 1582431167
- 価格
- 13801 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Professional & Technical/Engineering/Civil
A thought-provoking and dramatic account details the author's family who immigrated from Italy and Barbadoes to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with radiation and toxic waste, which led to infertility and the destruction of their dream. 25,000 first printing.
Susanne Antonetta is the author of three collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize winner and Library Booklist Notable Book. She lives near Seattle with her husband, a poet, and her young son.
レビュー
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A masterful Must Read for anyone concerned about our environmental pollution
A scathing indictment of industry having no concern for their toxic runoff and the havoc it causes to the people affected . Written beautifully by a poet.
関連する文学賞
- American Book Awards 第23回（2002年） ・Winner