Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
by Rafkin, Louise
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1565121627
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121621
- Seller
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carson city, Nevada, United States
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Synopsis
After earning an M.A. in Comparative Literature, Louise Rafkin , facing a career choice, took the road less traveled. She became a housecleaner. The money was better than teaching, the lifestyle intriguing for someone with an insatiable curiosity about her fellow human beings. And while she quickly became an expert on the best vacuum cleaner in the world--and the most efficient paper towels--she also saw the unseen parts of people's lives. In this fresh, funny, strikingly original memoir, she talks about her invisible status as a domestic worker in a world of illicit sex and secret livees, of closet alcoholics and binge eaters, unlikely spiritualists and revealing celebrities. In Other People's Dirt , Louise Rafkin reveals something about our values, our society, and ourselves. And, from the detritus of our lives, she gives us something at once delightfully entertaining and profound.
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- Bookseller
- All-Ways Fiction (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035604
- Title
- Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
- Author
- Rafkin, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565121627
- ISBN 13
- 9781565121621
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- PH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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