The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster /
By: Krasnostein, Sarah [author.].
Series: Wellcome Book Prize. Publisher: Melbourne, Australia : Text Publishing, 2017Description: 261 pages : illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781925498523; 9781925498523:; 1925498522.Subject(s): Pankhurst, Sandra | Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography | Compulsive hoarding -- Cleaning -- Australia | Transgender people -- Australia -- Biography | Accidents -- Cleaning -- Australia | Crime scenes -- Cleaning | Violent deaths -- Cleaning -- Australia | Accidents -- Cleaning | House cleaning -- Australia | Violent deaths -- Cleaning | Psychic traumaDDC classification: 363.25 KRA Awards: Shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2019.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 loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 363.25 KRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0081344 |
Includes bibliographical references (page 261).
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.
Shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2019.