The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster
Krasnostein, Sarah2019
Books, Manuscripts
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.
Main title:
The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster / Sarah Krasnostein.
Author:
Krasnostein, Sarah, author
Imprint:
Melbourne : Text Publishing Company, 2019.
Collation:
261 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2017.
Awards:
Victorian Prize for Literature, Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, ABIA General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Dobbie Award
ISBN:
9781925603897 (pbk)
Dewey class:
363.70092363.7
LC class:
HD8039.C442
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2578078
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