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Windows on the world : fifty writers, fifty views
- Title
- Windows on the world : fifty writers, fifty views / Matteo Pericoli ; preface by Lorin Stein.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN6071.W56 W56 2014 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Pericoli, Matteo, 1968-
- Description
- xi, 135 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal--either physically or metaphorically--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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Literary collections.
- ISBN
- 9781594205545 (hardback)
- 159420554X (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014032946
- 99964853303
- 40024292428
- OCLC
- ocn870919774
- 870919774
- SCSB-5825993
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries