基本信息出版社：Counterpoint
页码：256 页
出版日期：2002年03月
ISBN：1582432090
International Standard Book Number：1582432090
条形码：9781582432090
EAN：9781582432090
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 For readers of A Civil Action and Refuge, a harrowing story of a body and a place--the New Jersey boglands, one of the most contaminated regions of the country.

This is an American story. Two immigrant families drawn together from wildly different parts of the world, Italy on one side and Barbados on the other, pursued their vision of the American dream by building a summer escape in the boglands of New Jersey, where the rural and industrial collide. They picked gooseberries on hot afternoons and spent lazy days rowing dinghies down creeks. But the gooseberry patch was near a nuclear power plant that released record levels of radiation, and the creeks were invisibly ruined by illegally dumped toxic waste. One by one, family members found their bodies mirroring the compromised landscape of the Barrens: infertile and damaged by inexplicable growths. Soon the area parents were being asked to donate their children's baby teeth to be tested for radiation.

Body Toxic is an environmental memoir--merging the personal and familial with the political and environmental. Intensely intimate and starkly contemporary, it is a story of bravery and resignation, of great hope and great loss. This beautifully composed book presents American families in the midst of the wreckage of the American dream.
作者简介 Susanne Antonetta lives near Seattle with her husband and her young son.
媒体推荐 "Its insistence on speaking one woman's ravaged truth will leave few readers unmoved." -- New Age

"[A] harrowing yet lovely memoir." -- Publishers Weekly