"The Dead Silence of Goods": Annie Ernaux and the Superstore - The Paris Review

The first and only time I went to the Walmart in Iowa City was surreal.When I was in high school, my parents' business-oriented small press had published a book called The Case Against Walmart that called for a national consumer boycott of the company; the author denounced everything from the superstore's destruction of environmentally protected lands to its sweatshop labor to its knockoff merchandise.

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