The Resource Try to get lost : essays on travel and place, Joan Frank
Try to get lost : essays on travel and place, Joan Frank
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The item Try to get lost : essays on travel and place, Joan Frank represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxi, 182 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780826361370
- Label
- Try to get lost : essays on travel and place
- Title
- Try to get lost
- Title remainder
- essays on travel and place
- Statement of responsibility
- Joan Frank
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Frank, Joan
- Dewey number
- 814/.6
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Series statement
- River teeth literary nonfiction prize
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Frank, Joan
- Frank, Joan
- United States
- Europe
- Frank, Joan
- Travel
- Europe
- United States
- Label
- Try to get lost : essays on travel and place, Joan Frank
- 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
- Control code
- on1124986414
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xxi, 182 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826361370
- Lccn
- 2019032101
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1124986414
- Label
- Try to get lost : essays on travel and place, Joan Frank
- 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
- Control code
- on1124986414
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xxi, 182 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826361370
- Lccn
- 2019032101
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1124986414
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