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Ariana Kelly - Phone Booth - 9781628924091 - V9781628924091
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Phone Booth

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Description for Phone Booth Paperback. Series: Object Lessons. Num Pages: 160 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 237 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature, film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers a definitive account of an object on the cusp of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Object Lessons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781628924091
SKU
V9781628924091
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Ariana Kelly
Ariana Kelly is a freelance writer and educator. She teaches English literature and comparative religion at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, USA, and has written for, among other publications, The L.A. Review of Books and Salon.

Reviews for Phone Booth
An entertaining and enlightening exploration of the cultural history of the phone booth and a lament for the loss of these spaces.
WPR: BETA
In this delightful set of mini-essays, Ariana Kelly has created a paen, rather than an elegy, in celebration of the many dimensions of the vanishing phone booth. Her text gleans images and sensations from ... Read more

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