| Description |
261 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations,portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 261) |
| Subject |
Pankhurst, Sandra.
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Cleaning personnel -- Australia -- Biography.
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Compulsive hoarding -- Cleaning -- Australia.
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Accidents -- Cleaning -- Australia.
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Violent deaths -- Cleaning -- Australia.
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House cleaning -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781925498523 (paperback) |
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1925498522 (paperback) |
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9781925410761 (ebook) |
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1925410765 (ebook) |
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