Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty First Century

Release on 2017-09-19 | by Jessica Bruder

"People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit ...

Author: Jessica Bruder
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393249323
Category: Social Science
Page: 288
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Nomadland Surviving America in the Twenty First Century

The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Language: en
Pages: 288

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Authors: Jessica Bruder

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-19 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Language: en
Pages: 288

Nomadland

Authors: Jessica Bruder

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-29 - Publisher: Swift Press

The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. ‘A remarkable book’ New Yorker From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties

Language: en
Pages: 100

Nomadland Notebook

Authors: Sakhr Mssiyah

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-04 - Publisher:

Follows a woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road

Language: en
Pages: 460

Nomad's Land

Authors: Scott McClintock

Categories: Comparative literature

Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 287

Nomad's Land

Authors: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: Open Road Media

A memoir of desert travel—by camel and horseback—from a beloved author An internationally renowned writer of mystery fiction, Mary Roberts Rinehart knows her way around an exotic setting. When faced with the Pyramids, the Nile, and the sprawling Egyptian desert in her own life, she does not fall in with