Exit
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Exit
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"An unique exploration of exits as everyday commands we follow, personal choices we make in relationships and work, and as political outcomes we experience"--
An unique exploration of exits as everyday commands we follow, personal choices we make in relationships and work, and as political outcomes we experience.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world.
What does it really mean to ‘exit’? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, Sesame Street, and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what’s on the other side.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Praised for its clever and moving perspective, Exit challenges readers to see the ordinary anew, offering inspiration especially relevant to contemporary moments of change. Nicola Sturgeon highlights it as wondrous and hopeful, while The Scotsman and The National commend Waddell's thoughtful, compelling writing and accessibility for new readers of the Object Lessons series. The book is noted for its empathetic and insightful approach to political and personal themes of exclusion and escape.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781501358159
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 2.0mm
Width: 198.0mm
Height: 238.0mm
Weight: 160g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Laura Waddell is a writer and publisher based in Scotland. In 2019 she won a Write to End Violence Against Women Award for her column in the Scotsman newspaper. She currently sits on the editorial board of Gutter magazine. Her cultural criticism and fiction have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Kinfolk, McSweeney's and several anthologies as well as on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland. Exit is her first book.
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