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Objectstaat
Nieuw: Een nieuw, ongelezen en ongebruikt boek in perfecte staat waarin geen bladzijden ontbreken of ...
ISBN
9781609389352
Book Title
Bjarki, Not Bjarki : on Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Publication Year
2024
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Matthew J. C. Clark
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Topic
General, Essays
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Number of Pages
173 Pages

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"You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, 'What'd you do with your life?' And me being like, 'Well, I sold a bunch of floors.'" These are the words of Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, the young man who manufactures the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine floorboards on the planet. At least, that's what Matthew Clark believes. Set mostly in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki is an expansive book. It is a standard work of journalism, describing with nuance and humanity the people and processes that transform the forest into your floor. It is also a meditation on what it means to know another person and to connect with them, especially in an increasingly polarized America. And it is a ghost story about marriage. It is an inquiry into the limits of language and certainty, a rumination on North American colonization, masculinity, gift cards, crab rangoon, bald eagles, and wood, all of it told in an exciting, energized, and original prose. Bjarki turns out to be someone quite different from whom the author had hoped. A new pine floor buckles. A coyote is shot. A diamond is lost. How do we make sense of the world and of ourselves, especially when the floor beneath us is so unstable; when nothing is quite what we had hoped it would be?

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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609389352
ISBN-13
9781609389352
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18061840776

Product Key Features

Book Title
Bjarki, Not Bjarki : on Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences
Author
Matthew J. C. Clark
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Essays
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
173 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3603.L365325z46
Reviews
"In Bjarki, Not Bjarki , Matthew Clark is trying to write about everything all at once: love and heartbreak and loss; wood and work and loneliness; friendship and privilege, masculinity and honesty and the sad limitations of both. This is a story that is overflowing with thought and reflection, abundant in self-examination, excessively self-critical, overburdened by its ownership of the past. The result: a lyrical eruption of bittersweet joy, created by a writer who is totally fine in a rapturous state of being lost. Bjarki, Not Bjarki is a lot like the state (Maine) where Clark's story takes place: full of contradictions and wilderness, always committed to the impossible question of what it means to be a free and honest person in the world. Matthew Clark is a writer who swings for all the fences."--Jaed Coffin, author, Roughhouse Friday, "Matthew Clark has refinished the floorboards of America with so gently glimmering a new sheen of myth that the smartest among us will immediately invest in the cushiest of slippers for fear of muffling their stories again. Bjarki, Not Bjarki is a masterfully ecstatic, surprising, and humane debut."--John D'Agata, "Unlike so many of us, Matthew Clark refuses to concede defeat at the hands of our country's yawning cultural and political divisions. In Bjarki, Not Bjarki , he shows that empathy must be built on actual understanding, and his writing has the self-awareness, the freshness, and the beauty to help us all understand."--Jeremy Eichler, author, Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance, "At the edges of this finely told tale hangs a fog of dark matter (troubles in love, misinformation, guns, insurrection, a jokey racism) while at the center stands a lumber mill in Maine, where men practice a useful craft (as best they can) and befriend one another (ditto). If the fog surrounding them (and us) is ever to lift it will be thanks to voices as attentive, amusing, and generous as that of Matthew Clark. Bjarki, Not Bjarki is the kind of book we need right now."--Lewis Hyde
Copyright Date
2023
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2023-015303

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