Try to Get Lost
Essays on Travel and Place
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2020
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6137-0 (ISBN)
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6137-0 (ISBN)
Through the author's travels, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the reverberations of the word “hotel”, and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground.
Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word 'hotel,' and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place the vastest real estate we know, with a stunningly short lease.
Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word 'hotel,' and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place the vastest real estate we know, with a stunningly short lease.
Joan Frank is the award-winning author of a number of books of literary fiction and essays including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and All the News I Need: A Novel. She lives with her husband, playwright Bob Duxbury, in the North Bay Area of California.
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize |
Zusatzinfo | 1 halftone |
Verlagsort | Albuquerque, NM |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 280 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8263-6137-4 / 0826361374 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8263-6137-0 / 9780826361370 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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