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Rose City: A Memoir of Work
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February 24, 2011
Read this when it first came out. It isn't so much about working as it is about the author trying to justify her affair with a married college professor and her inability to understand why his colleages and friends don't happily accept her into their midst nor do the people of her new city.
This could be because she looks down on all of them and seems to believe that she's better than they are.
Interesting, but kind of off point of what the book was supposed to be about.
This could be because she looks down on all of them and seems to believe that she's better than they are.
Interesting, but kind of off point of what the book was supposed to be about.
April 20, 2019
Candid writing that draws images of Richmond in the early 90's in stunning ways. The language and images will stay with me and help me to appreciate this city I call home for a short season.
February 11, 2009
My favorite passage from the book, "Workers keep obsessive track of time because time is their only commodity. Anyone who works in a greenhouse, or a factory, or behind a counter flipping burgers, or in an aisle stocking shelves, or behind a cash register taking money, anyone who works by hour by hour knows this: there is no getting ahead, there is no better place to go, there is no raise in their future, there is no promotion in sight."
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