Format:
Online-Ressource (163 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226437002
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0226437000
Content:
Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don't think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing-and a lot of it. With Collections of Nothing, he takes a hard look at this habitual hoarding to see what truths it can reveal about the impulse to accumulate. Part memoir, part reflection on the mania of acquisition, Collections of Nothing begins with the stamp collection that King was given as a boy. In the following years, rather than rarity or pedigree, he found himself searching out the lowly and the lost, the cast-off
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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1 NOTHING LOST; 2 NOTHING GAINED; 3 NOTHING REGAINED; 4 NOTHING TO KEEP; 5 NOTHING SPECIAL; 6 NOTHING AT ALL; 7 THE REST; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Collections of Nothing
Language:
English
