Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter

MacLaughlin, Nina

ISBN 10: 0393239136 / ISBN 13: 9780393239133

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00072090667

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Carpenter s Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to applyHammer HeadBe smarter than the tools!Whisking her readers from job to job building a wall, remodeling a kitchen, gut-renovating a house MacLaughlin examines the history of the tools she uses and the virtues and varieties of wood. Throughout, she draws on the wisdom of Ovid, Annie Dillard, Studs Terkel, and Mary Oliver to illuminate her experience of work. And, in a deeply moving climax, MacLaughlin strikes out on her own for the first time to build bookshelves for her own father.Hammer Head

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Nina MacLaughlin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a carpenter. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she has written for the Believer, Bookslut, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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Titel: Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good