Darwin's Moving
Taylor Lambert
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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
NeWest Press
NeWest Press
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2017
2017
ISBN-13:
9781988732046
Description:
<p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalist in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalist in the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b><br>In a city known for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots is rarely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together in intimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacious homes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upper classes—a unique bridging of two normally segregated worlds.</p><p><i>Darwin’s Moving</i> is an intriguing and affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover. Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almost completely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of poverty and addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a world populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown's shadow.</p> <p><b>Winner of the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!<br>Finalist in the Trade Non-Fiction Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!<br>Finalist in the Cover Design Award at the 2018 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!</b></p><p>In a city known for wealth and prosperity, the divide between haves and have-nots is rarely clearer than on moving day, when those two worlds come together in intimate fashion. Violent ex-cons and drug addicts are invited into spacious homes, entrusted with the care and transport of the possessions of the upper classes—a unique bridging of two normally segregated worlds.</p><p><i>Darwin’s Moving</i> is an intriguing and affecting exploration of class divides by a journalist and former mover. Taylor Lambert takes us behind the scenes of a familiar industry that is almost completely undocumented in Canadian literature to reveal the cycles of poverty and addiction that ensnare its workers. This is the Other Calgary, a world populated by transient men and women struggling to survive in a boomtown's shadow.</p>