Working the Aisles
A Life in Consumption
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2014
251 pages
978-1-78279-356-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Robert Appelbaum received his PhD from the University of Calfornia, Berkeley, and is currently Professor English Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter One: Working the Aisles
- Chapter Two: In the Kitchen
- Chapter Three: Unforgettable
- Chapter Four: Wonderful Alison
- Chapter Five: Winners
- Chapter Six: Beyond Confusion
- Chapter Seven: Personnummer
