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Windows on the world, fifty writers, fifty views, Matteo Pericoli ; with a preface by Lorin Stein

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Windows on the world, fifty writers, fifty views, Matteo Pericoli ; with a preface by Lorin Stein

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eng

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Windows on the world

Oclc number

870919774

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Matteo Pericoli ; with a preface by Lorin Stein

Sub title

fifty writers, fifty views

Summary

"All of us, at some point in our daily lives, find ourselves looking out a window. We pause in our work, tune out of a conversation, and turn toward the outside. Our eyes gaze, without seeing, at a landscape whose familiarity becomes the customary ground for distraction: the usual rooftops, familiar trees, a distant crane. The way of life for most of us in the twenty-first century means that we spend most of our time indoors, in an urban environment, and our awareness of the outside world comes via, and thanks to, a framed glass hole in the wall. In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli explores this theme alongside fifty writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal what the drawings cannot, Windows on the World offers a perceptual journey through the world as seen through the windows of prominent writers Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Lagos, John Jeremiah Sullivan in Wilmington, North Carolina, Nadine Gordimer in Johannesburg, Xi Chuan in Beijing. Taken together, the views--geography and perspective, location and voice--resonate with and play off each other"--, Provided by publisher

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adult

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