Mongo
Adventures in Trash
1st Us edition
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8786412M
- ISBN-139781582344522
- ISBN-101582344523
- OCLC Control Number54022449
- OCLC Control Numbermongo00tedb
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003028009
- Goodreads1516981
- LibraryThing64317
Classifications
- LCCAM231 .B68 2004
Description
Mongo n. 1 [1970s +] an idiot. 2 [1980s +] (US, New York) any discarded object that is retrieved. 3. [1980s +] (US, New York) a scrap-metal scavenger. (The Cassell Dictionary of Slang) When journalist Ted Botha moved to New York from South Africa, where people constructed homes out of what others considered trash, he decorated his apartment with furniture he found on Manhattan streets. Soon he realized he wasn't the only person finding things of value in the garbage, and he began roaming the streets meeting all kinds of collectors, united by their obsession with mongo-any discarded item that is rescued from the trash.
First Sentence
It is four o'clock in the morning when the phone rings.
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- Mongo: Adventures in Trash
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