| Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption Contributor(s): Appelbaum, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1782793577 ISBN-13: 9781782793571 Publisher: Zero Books OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology - Social Science | Popular Culture - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 190 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 251 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. Moving back and forth through time, like a novelist, indeed in something of a memoirist tour de force, the book develops the story of struggle, of poverty and depression, but also of gaiety and desire, of a will to live in spite of it all, and to keep working the aisles. It moves the reader through highs and lows, through episodes of ecstasy and thoughts about suicide, and tells how this particular Everyman ended up sane but sorry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Appelbaum, Robert: - Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP, 2002), Dishing It Out (Reaktion, 2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Zero, 2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: the Mythography of Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (Oxford UP, 2015). |