James Geary, I is An Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor...
Porter Square Books, torsdag, maj 10, 2012 kl 7pm
"This book is for everyone interested in the subtle operations of language and thought....I is an other is one of those ‘must-read’ books for this year, for any year. It deserves a wide audience, and it will find one.” Jay Parini, author of Promised land: Thirteen Books that Changed America
“Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner’s wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing....You’ll scarf down every page of I is an other and then ask for more.” Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Book by Book and Classics for Pleasure
James Geary is the author of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and the New York Times bestseller The world in a phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (tillagd från IndieBound)… (mer)
“Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner’s wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Geary is no less astonishing....You’ll scarf down every page of I is an other and then ask for more.” Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Book by Book and Classics for Pleasure
James Geary is the author of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and the New York Times bestseller The world in a phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (tillagd från IndieBound)… (mer)
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