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Singing The City: The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape
Laurie Graham
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Description for Singing The City: The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape
Paperback. A celebration of Pittsburgh's industrial landscape and an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. Laurie Graham's hymn to family history, hard physical labour and and the love of place reveals a rich human story too often lost amidst the landscape of industry. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; BG; HBJK; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done—both to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart. Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little ... Read more
Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done—both to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart. Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822957928
SKU
V9780822957928
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About Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham was an editor at Scribners for eighteen years and is the author of Rebuilding the House (1990), a memoir, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in Pittsburgh.
Reviews for Singing The City: The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape
This memoir/sociological and architectural tour of her adoptive town is a well-written mixture of stories: about herself, about Pittsburgh's history, and mostly, about workers at steel mills.... A remarkable, highly personal story of place. - Publishers Weekly ""A book that will resonate with anyone, anywhere, who is interested in the complex relationship between urban landscape and human spirit."" - Associated ... Read more