Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
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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Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
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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Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

by Robert Appelbaum Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Uppsala University
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption

by Robert Appelbaum Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Uppsala University

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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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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782793571
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 05/30/2014
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 251
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.41(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Robert Appelbaum received his PhD from the University of Calfornia, Berkeley, and is currently Professor English Literature, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Working the Aisles 1

Chapter 2 In the Kitchen 50

Chapter 3 Unforgettable 87

Chapter 4 Wonderful Alison 123

Chapter 5 Winners 147

Chapter 6 Beyond Confusion 182

Chapter 7 Personnummer 217

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