The Resource The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster, by Sarah Krasnostein
The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster, by Sarah Krasnostein
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The item The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster, by Sarah Krasnostein represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene - that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 261 pages, 8 pages unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925498523
- Label
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster
- Title
- The trauma cleaner
- Title remainder
- one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster
- Statement of responsibility
- by Sarah Krasnostein
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It's not the police, firefighters, or EMTs that clean up a crime scene - that's the job of a trauma cleaner, specifically Sandra Pankhurst. 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. 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Krasnostein, Sarah
- Dewey number
-
- 648.5
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pankhurst, Sandra
- Transgender people
- Crime scenes
- Cleaning personnel
- Accidents
- Violent deaths
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster, by Sarah Krasnostein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060369041
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages, 8 pages unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925498523
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustraions, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992709750
- Label
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in death, decay & disaster, by Sarah Krasnostein
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060369041
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages, 8 pages unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781925498523
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustraions, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)992709750
Subject
- Cleaning personnel -- Biography
- Crime scenes -- Cleaning
- Pankhurst, Sandra
- Transgender people -- Biography
- trueViolent deaths -- Cleaning
- trueAccidents -- Cleaning
- trueAustralian
Genre
Included in
- trueDobbie Literary Award (Australia)
- trueLibrarians' Choice (Australia): 2017
- trueNSW Premier's Literary Awards: Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction
- trueVictorian Premier's Literary Awards: Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
- trueVictorian Premier's Literary Awards: Victorian Prize for Literature
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
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