| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
291 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288).. |
| Summary |
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 living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead--and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together. |
| Subject |
Pankhurst, Sandra.
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Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography.
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Death -- Australia.
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Accidents -- Australia.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781250101204 (hardcover) |
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1250101204 (hardcover) |
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9781250101211 (ebook) |
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