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What It Means and Why It Matters

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What It Means and Why It Matters

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About This Book

Where do you live? The answer to this seemingly simple question can be more complicated than youd think.
Drawing on personal experience, Mary Gordon examines various forms of abode-from her childhood house in Far Rockaway to apartments in Palo Alto, Rome, and the Upper West Side-as well as the very concept of "home" and how it has evolved over time. Rich in insightful observations from writers and thinkers as diverse as Gaston Bachelard, Le Corbusier, Emerson, Colette, and Edith Wharton, At Home skillfully provokes us to probe our own thoughts about what "home" truly means to each of us. Notions of safety, morality, cleanliness, comfort, and the changing nature of the family are just a few of the colors Gordon uses to paint an intriguing portrait of a place we all thought we knew.

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Publisher
Union Square & Co.
Year
2011
ISBN
9781402783081
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Ensayos literarios

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ONE: WHAT MAKES A HOUSE A HOME?
  7. TWO: MONEY, MORALS, HISTORY, SYMBOL, SAFETY
  8. THREE: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY HOME?
  9. ENDNOTES
  10. ABOUT THE AUTHOR