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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things Paperback - 1998
by Leah Hager Cohen
In this elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things, Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table at the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin.
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Every day this happens: we rotate into light.
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Once upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information is still readily available. But in our society, even as technology makes certain kinds of information more accessible than ever, other connections are irrevocably lost.
In "Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table at the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin. As Cohen draws the reader Oz-like across time and continents, she brings to life three unforgettable characters whose labor provides the glass for her mug, the pulp for her newspaper and the beans for her cup of coffee. In prose as sophisticated as it is simple, she braids the myths, lore, and history of these three simple staples and conjures an unseen world where economics, fetishization, and manufacture meet.
An elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things," Glass, Paper, Beans is a classic work on the economy of everyday life.
In "Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table at the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin. As Cohen draws the reader Oz-like across time and continents, she brings to life three unforgettable characters whose labor provides the glass for her mug, the pulp for her newspaper and the beans for her cup of coffee. In prose as sophisticated as it is simple, she braids the myths, lore, and history of these three simple staples and conjures an unseen world where economics, fetishization, and manufacture meet.
An elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things," Glass, Paper, Beans is a classic work on the economy of everyday life.
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- Title Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
- Author Leah Hager Cohen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-08-17
- ISBN 9780385492577 / 038549257X
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.74 x 5.6 x 0.83 in (22.20 x 14.22 x 2.11 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.3
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