Bibliograph

Try to get lost, essays on travel and place, Joan Frank

Type

Label

Try to get lost, essays on travel and place, Joan Frank

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Try to get lost

Oclc number

1124986414

Responsibility statement

Joan Frank

Series statement

River teeth literary nonfiction prize

Sub title

essays on travel and place

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

Table Of 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

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