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S'està carregant… Arbitrary Stupid Goal (edició 2017)de Tamara Shopsin (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Arbitrary Stupid Goal caught my interest from the very first page: "The imaginary horizontal lines that circle the earth make sense. Our equator is 0 degrees, the North and South Poles are 90 degrees. Latitude's order is airtight with clear and elegant motives. The earth has a top and a bottom. Longitude is another story. There isn't a left and a right to earth. Any line could have been called 0 degrees. But Greenwich got first dibs on the prime meridian and as a result the world set clocks and ships by a British resort town that lies outside of London. The rest of the book was filled with stories and illustrations that were just as arbitrary as you would expect. I found the stories interesting, but what really stuck with me was the Arbitrary Stupid Goal philosophy. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"'Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world--when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life'--Miranda July; In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara's universe is Shopsin's, her family's legendary greasy spoon, aka 'The Store, ' run by her inimitable dad, Kenny--a loquacious, contrary, huge-hearted man who, aside from dishing up New York's best egg salad on rye, is Village sheriff, philosopher, and fixer all at once. All comers find a place at Shopsin's table and feast on Kenny's tall tales and trenchant advice along with the incomparable chili con carne. Filled with clever illustrations and witty, nostalgic photographs and graphics, and told in a sly, elliptical narrative that is both hilarious and endearing, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life, which is becoming a forgotten art "--Provided by publisher. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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