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Try to get lost : essays on travel and place / Joan Frank.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020Description: xxi, 182 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780826361370
  • 0826361374
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Prologue. The where of it -- Shake me up, Judy -- Cake-frosting country -- Cake-frosting coda : the astonishment index -- In case of Firenze -- A bag of one's own -- Cave of the iron door -- Red state, blue state : a short, biased lament -- Today I will fly -- Little traffic light men -- Place as answer : HGTV -- Rules for the well-intended -- Think of England -- Location sluts -- The room where it happens -- Lundi matin -- Coda. I see a long journey.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 814.6 F828 Available 33111009588282
Total holds: 0

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Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction



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"-- Provided by publisher.

Prologue. The where of it -- Shake me up, Judy -- Cake-frosting country -- Cake-frosting coda : the astonishment index -- In case of Firenze -- A bag of one's own -- Cave of the iron door -- Red state, blue state : a short, biased lament -- Today I will fly -- Little traffic light men -- Place as answer : HGTV -- Rules for the well-intended -- Think of England -- Location sluts -- The room where it happens -- Lundi matin -- Coda. I see a long journey.

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