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Frank, Joan, 1949- author.
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Frank, Joan, 1949- -- Travel -- United States.
Frank, Joan, 1949- -- Travel -- Europe.
United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
Europe -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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Try to get lost : es...
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Try to get lost : essays on travel and place / Joan Frank.
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Frank, Joan, 1949- author.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2020.
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Frank, Joan, 1949- -- Travel -- United States.
Frank, Joan, 1949- -- Travel -- Europe.
United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
Europe -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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9780826361370 (paperback)
0826361374 (paperback)
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River teeth literary nonfiction prize (Series)
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xxi, 182 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Prologue. The where of it -- Shake me up, Judy -- Cake-frosting country -- Cake-frosting coda: the astonishment index -- In case of Firenze -- A bag of one's own -- Cave of the iron door -- Red state, blue state: a short, biased lament -- Today I will fly -- Little traffic light men -- Place as answer: HGTV -- Rules for the well-intended -- Think of England -- Location sluts -- The room where it happens -- Lundi matin -- Coda: I see a long journey.
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"Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word "hotel," and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place-the "vastest real estate we know," with a "stunningly short" lease"--
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CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library
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814.6 Fr
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