Fabrication edition by Susan Neville Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Who hasn't held some strange object, like a paper clip or a breath mint, and wondered how it came to be shaped, shipped and merchandised? Neville, short story writer and essayist, acts on that curiosity by embarking on a series of factory tours, some planned and others impromptu, to observe the manufacture of all sorts of objects, including globes, caskets, cookies, glass, dolls and even gyroscopes. Her inclination toward fiction and personal essay lend context and a literary flavor, as she describes her sometimes melancholy thoughts and feelings while watching a doll-factory worker write "baby" on each plastic head, or hearing a tobacco auctioneer sigh about a recently lost dog. Sometimes her propensity to wax philosophical works against her, making some passages too lavish for the material. For example, in the chapter about coffins, the spare, clear prose that works well through much of the tour gives way to dreaminess "I think about the people I love so desperately. I think about their living eyes. Like kindling. Bless the life inside of them. Like kindling." But most of the time, the work truly shines. Readers who appreciate long riffs on meaning and family will be happy to gaze out at these factory floors from their armchairs. (Mar.)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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We are a nation of consumers. But where does what we buy come from? And how are these things made? In this meditation on manufacture, Susan Neville journeys to factories and plants in the heart of Indiana, looking for the sources of things.
From these journeys, Neville learns how the process of canning tomatoes is similar to the process of making metal caskets. Watches thousands of blue globes spin through a room like planets. Learns how, and by whom, and how well, and why things are made, whether they be dolls or insulin, gyroscopes or glass. And, by focusing on process and production, Neville gives us new, uncommon perspectives from which to view our world, and ourselves.
Fabrication edition by Susan Neville Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
This is one of my favorite books. I actually bought this copy for someone else, but I'll leave a review anyway. This book is all about making things, mostly as done by companies from the American Midwest. The stories are all interesting, but the writing itself is the best part of this book. It is so evocative and engaging, you can feel the same excitement and wonder that the author felt when working on the book initially. The very first section, called "How the Universe is Made", is one of my favorite pieces of writing of all time. It's too bad this book has not had a wider audience, I would love for Oprah to discover it.Product details
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Fabrication edition by Susan Neville Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I agree with Michael Feldman's take on this book fascinating! The author takes you into the world of how things are and were being made at the end of the twentieth century in the American Midwest dolls, insulin, gyroscopes, caskets, steel, veneer, cookies, globes, glass, and cars. In the process she fabricates essays of lyrical beauty, a fitting tribute to the well-made objects she explores.
This is one of my favorite books. I actually bought this copy for someone else, but I'll leave a review anyway. This book is all about making things, mostly as done by companies from the American Midwest. The stories are all interesting, but the writing itself is the best part of this book. It is so evocative and engaging, you can feel the same excitement and wonder that the author felt when working on the book initially. The very first section, called "How the Universe is Made", is one of my favorite pieces of writing of all time. It's too bad this book has not had a wider audience, I would love for Oprah to discover it.
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