Egg by Dr. Nicole Walker (English) Paperback Book

Description: Egg by Dr. Nicole Walker Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object—strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walkers Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object—egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Author Biography Nicole Walker is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA. Her previous books include Canning Peaches for the Apocalypse (2017), Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (co-edited with Margot Singer, Bloomsbury, 2013), and Quench Your Thirst With Salt, winner of the 2011 Zone 3 nonfiction prize. Her work has appeared in Fence, the Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, Shenandoah, New American Writing, the Seneca Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She has been granted a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. Table of Contents AcknowledgementsDear EggWhy We Break the Things We Love the MostRotten EggsThe Egg Came FirstExperiment with Eggs by Making a Hollandaise in the Time of Global WarmingHow to Cook a PlanetSpoonsThe Glue That Holds Us TogetherAll the Eggs in IsraelAll the Eggs in UkraineAll the Eggs in KoreaAll the Eggs in ChinaEggs in UtahMohawkSo Many Eggs, One Small BasketWhich Came First? Chicken Porn Can Help You Make Up Your Mind About EggsBreaking a Few EggsBlue Planet, Blue OmeletHumpty Dumpty, RevisedDo Eggs Bring Skunks?Would You Eat a Red Speckled Egg?The Incredible, Edible EggWhat Is a Cloaca?A Million Year Old EggA Lot of Pressure on One EggSidewalk Cooking EggsA Science Fair Every YearThe Sex Lives of FishThe Present Was an Egg Laid by the Past That Had the Future Inside Its Shell—Zora Neale HurstonRecipe for an Already-Cracked Egg Review Walker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride … Much within the lovely covers is delightful. * FoodAnthropology *This is the eggiest book ever, and the egg is everything. Egg is forthright, joyful, mournful and charming, as personal and expansive as the good great egg. * Lucy Corin, Program Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA, and author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (2013) *Egg is Walkers third book of nonfiction, and it is just one book from Bloomsburys Object Lessons Series… Like its cohorts, Egg offers an unusual lens for observing everyday objects. In this book of thirty short essays, Walker combines equal parts personal narrative, natural history, and cookbook—adding a pinch of cultural history and a dash of mythology—to whip up something that defies genre and is especially palpable in todays divisive political climate wherein both reproductive rights and the environment are under attack … Walker surveys the depths of virginity and motherhood, global warming and habitat destruction, cooking and art. And she does so with impeccable precision. * Slashnburn *"[A] deeply engrossing and very accessible work of philosophy, a quasi-religious contemplation of someone elses daily striving possessed of both poetic and factual merit. … Walkers Egg is the product of her own amalgamation of eggsperiences, refracted through her own poetic syntactical sense and broader environmental interests. … Egg purports to be about eggs, but in the end, eggs are really about Nicole Walker and Walker is really about us. In reading an object meditation such as this, the reader has to engage on several increasingly difficult levels. First, we accept Walkers fragments for whatever they are, that then evokes our own experiences with eggs, we go on to approach Walkers text comparatively both for parallels in our experiences and for contrasts in our resultant ideas about eggs. Then, if all has gone according to plan, and we can confidently say that Egg has turned out to be a good book, we can begin to carry a heightened awareness for eggs in our lives in order to collect additional experiences with eggs that will then fuel our further personal growth in this metaphorical area. When you pay mind to an object this deeply, its a type of mission work. * PopMatters * Promotional Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg. Review Quote "Walker teaches creative writing at a Northern Arizona University, and I imagine she is very good at it. Her interest in other people and their lives holds the book together. Her specific remit, the egg, provides her with a good deal of scope and she enthusiastically takes her readers along for the ride ... Much within the lovely covers is delightful." -- FoodAnthropology "This is the eggiest book ever, and the egg is everything. Egg is forthright, joyful, mournful and charming, as personal and expansive as the good great egg." -- Lucy Corin, Program Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA, and author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses (2013) "Egg is Walkers third book of nonfiction, and it is just one book from Bloomsburys Object Lessons Series... Like its cohorts, Egg offers an unusual lens for observing everyday objects. In this book of thirty short essays, Walker combines equal parts personal narrative, natural history, and cookbook-adding a pinch of cultural history and a dash of mythology-to whip up something that defies genre and is especially palpable in todays divisive political climate wherein both reproductive rights and the environment are under attack ... Walker surveys the depths of virginity and motherhood, global warming and habitat destruction, cooking and art. And she does so with impeccable precision." -- Slashnburn ""[A] deeply engrossing and very accessible work of philosophy, a quasi-religious contemplation of someone elses daily striving possessed of both poetic and factual merit. ... Walkers Egg is the product of her own amalgamation of eggsperiences, refracted through her own poetic syntactical sense and broader environmental interests. ... Egg purports to be about eggs, but in the end, eggs are really about Nicole Walker and Walker is really about us. In reading an object meditation such as this, the reader has to engage on several increasingly difficult levels. First, we accept Walkers fragments for whatever they are, that then evokes our own experiences with eggs, we go on to approach Walkers text comparatively both for parallels in our experiences and for contrasts in our resultant ideas about eggs. Then, if all has gone according to plan, and we can confidently say that Egg has turned out to be a good book, we can begin to carry a heightened awareness for eggs in our lives in order to collect additional experiences with eggs that will then fuel our further personal growth in this metaphorical area. When you pay mind to an object this deeply, its a type of mission work." -- PopMatters Promotional "Headline" Taking in Faberge eggs, Easter eggs, dinosaur eggs, eggs across cultures and cuisines, rotten eggs, and good eggs, Egg is a whimsical and sometimes surprisingly serious examination of the humble egg. Feature The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic , explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and shows how everyday objects can teach us things about ourselves and the modern world Details ISBN1501322850 Short Title EGG Language English ISBN-10 1501322850 ISBN-13 9781501322853 Media Book Format Paperback Series Object Lessons Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-03-09 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.4 UK Release Date 2017-03-09 NZ Release Date 2017-03-09 US Release Date 2017-03-09 Author Dr. Nicole Walker Pages 168 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Audience General AU Release Date 2017-03-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161573743;

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