Full Body Burden: Growing Up In The Nuclear Shadow Of Rocky Falls (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
by Iversen, Kristen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 030795563X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307955630
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, U S A: Crown, 2012. NrF/NrF. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, KRISTEN IVERSEN, without dedication or inscription on title-page. The autobiography of American writer and professor Kristen Iversen (born 1958). She grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret weapon plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America". It's a book about the destructive power of secrets - both family and government. As Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions. She learned about the infamous 1969 Mother's Day fire, in which a few scraps of plutonium spontaneously ignited. As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalism - a detailed and shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats. With Timeline, Notes and Index. A near fine copy, in a near fine d/w, of a SCARCE first edition, first prining SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
KRISTEN IVERSEN grew up in Arvada, Colorado, near the Rocky Flats nuclear weaponry facility. She is director of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Memphis. Visit her website at KristenIversen.com.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16234
- Title
- Full Body Burden: Growing Up In The Nuclear Shadow Of Rocky Falls (SCARCE HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Iversen, Kristen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 030795563X
- ISBN 13
- 9780307955630
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York, U S A
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Autobiography. Biography. Memoir. Rocky Flats, Colorado, USA. Rocky Falls Plant. Environment. Health. Medical. Medical History. History. Plutonium Health Aspects. Radioactive Waste Sites. Nuclear Weapons. Nuclear Weapone Factories. Ra
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