Sock (Object Lessons)

Adrian, Kim

ISBN 10: 1501315064 / ISBN 13: 9781501315060

Published by Bloomsbury Academic (edition ), 2017

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1501315064-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sock (Object Lessons)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (edition )
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501315064
• ISBN 13: 9781501315060
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history, construction, and use, Kim Adrian's Sock reintroduces us to our own bodies- vulnerable, bipedal, and flawed.

Sock reminds us that extraordinary secrets live in mundane material realities, and shows how this floppy, often smelly, sometimes holey piece of clothing, whether machine-made or hand-knit, can also serve as an anatomy lesson, a physics primer, a love letter, a weapon, a fetish, and a fashion statement.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

About the Author

Kim Adrian is the author of the memoir The Twenty- Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist. Her first book, Sock, is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. She edited The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, an anthology praised by The Millions for "offering a sense of hope about literature and its capacity for change."