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OCoLC |
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20210908095507.0 |
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| LC control number |
2021010623 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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OCLCO |
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1262308995 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781538754115 |
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(Hardcover) |
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1538754118 |
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(OCoLC)1226564889 |
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(OCoLC)1262308995 |
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pcc |
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| Classification number |
796.2209 |
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B365 |
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NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Beachy, Kyle, |
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author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The most fun thing : |
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dispatches from a skateboard life / |
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Kyle Beachy. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Edition. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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| Projected publication date |
2108 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Grand Central Publishing, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2021] |
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© 2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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ix, 301 pages ; |
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21 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In the tradition of Barbarian Days, THE MOST FUN THING is a memoir in essays of Kyle Beachy's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding-a search that unearthed fresh insights on marriage, love, loss, and American invention. In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. For a decade and counting, Beachy has been skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime Beachy first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood. What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married? Answering these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime, often overlooked, regularly maligned, whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a life and collection of the varied lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-what it continues to teach him as he struggles to find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband"-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface: On benches -- Part 1. For whom is the fun thing fun? -- You're not me -- On firsts -- A chronicle of doing it -- On direction -- The deep seams -- On bad kickflips -- A very large puzzle -- On this ugly world -- Making up legends in the era of zero-budget skateboarding -- Part 2. On the obvious -- Toward a poetics of skateboarding -- On nostalgia -- Pretend we haven't grown -- On narrative -- A most mundane perfection -- On how -- Clearing a space for meaning -- On younger -- "Nearly" -- On bafflement -- Part 3. On Bitul Zman -- Good Old Street League -- On the technology of a secret -- A day with Chaz Ortiz -- On Tampa -- Primitive progessivism -- On pushing boarders -- Seriously: Mark Suciu -- "The Burning Monk" -- Part 4. Seven small bafflements -- On animal play -- Inappropriate places -- On decisions -- The Dylan period -- Still -- Epilogue: Loveletters. |
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| Personal name |
Beachy, Kyle. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Skateboarders |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
209168 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Skateboarding |
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History. |
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Autobiographies. |
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lcgft |
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728 |
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