An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses
Schalansky, Judith
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780811229630, Publication Date: Sat, August 1, 2020, Type: Hardcover ,
join & start selling
description
9Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as a whole, opens mesmerizing new vistas of how we can think about extinction and loss.
With meticulous research and a vivid awareness of why we should care about these losses, Judith Schalansky, the acclaimed author of Atlas of Remote Islands, lets these objects speak for themselves: she ventriloquizes the tone of other sources, burrows into the language of contemporaneous accounts, and deeply interrogates the very notion of memory.
reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

The Good Liar

by Searle, Nicholas

Paperback /Paperback

$12.74

Paper Money

by Follett, Ken

Paperback /Paperback

$12.75

Dementia 21 Vol.1

by Kago

Paperback /Paperback

$22.49

Mothtown

by Hardaker, Caroline

Paperback /Paperback

$14.24

listens & views

TRYIN TO GET OVER (CAN)

by D TRAIN

VINYL LP

$28.99

VIVA LAST BLUES

by PALACE MUSIC

VINYL LP

out of stock

$30.99

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.