Author : Kara Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628922664
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Book Synopsis Blanket by : Kara Thompson
Download or read book Blanket written by Kara Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We are born into blankets. They keep us alive and they cover us in death. We pull and tug on blankets to see us through the night or an illness. They shield us in mourning and witness our most intimate pleasures. Curious, fearless, vulnerable, and critical, Blanket interweaves cultural critique with memoir to cast new light on a ubiquitous object. Kara Thompson reveals blankets everywhere--film, art, geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home--and transforms an ordinary thing into a vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance and belonging, a companion to uncover. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.