Pip Pip : A Sideways Look At Time

Medium Trade Paperback. 316 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 1999. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: An enthusiastic piece of pop anthropology on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. Jay Griffiths takes the subject of "time" in her teeth and chews at it until it's a far more palatable item. Her exploration of the passage of time includes; our obsession with speed, with overtaking; motorways and their link to fascism; war; Mercury (god of flight) and the mythology of time and speed; Diana and Marilyn Monroe, flawed women who, through their violent deaths, have become timeless icons; history and the heritage industry; the "meanness" of Greenwich Mean Time; the fast language we now have to go with fast food; Aborigine dreamtime; the difference between festivals and pageants; May Day; and the New Year. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0006551777. ISBN/EAN: 9780006551775. Inventory No: 24030120. Paperback

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ISBN: 0006551777

ISBN-13: 9780006551775

Publisher: Collins

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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