The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins
by Dekkers, Midas (Sherry Marx-Macdonald = Translator from the Dutch)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0374286825
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286828
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 0374286825. Hardback. First American edition as stated. First printing. Fine/Fine. 9780374286828. DW is not price-clipped. No inscriptions or annotations. 280 pages including index and very extensive and detailed bibliography. Usual superior American binding. A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies. In "The Way of All Flesh", Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance, and that society's aversion to decay and mortality makes our lives shallow. 140 B&W illustrations. .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2472
- Title
- The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins
- Author
- Dekkers, Midas (Sherry Marx-Macdonald = Translator from the Dutch)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374286825
- ISBN 13
- 9780374286828
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000 0374286825
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 25, 2000
- Keywords
- Ruins Romance Buildings Decay Fall Beauty Mortailty Death People QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
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David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
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