{"product_id":"9781501358159","title":"Exit","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eExit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Laura Waddell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it really mean to ‘exit’? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, \u003ci\u003eSesame Street\u003c\/i\u003e and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what’s on the other side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An incredible writer. \u003ci\u003eExit \u003c\/i\u003eis wondrous, cleverly and movingly encouraging us to think of the ordinary in new and challenging ways. As it happens, I read this brilliant book while pondering what an 'exit' from the coronavirus lockdown might look like, and the reminder that exits often lead to new and better beginnings was a welcome inspiration indeed.” —\u003ci\u003eNicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writer, publisher and award-winning Scotsman columnist Laura Waddell straddles the tangible and the theoretical in her thoughtful contribution on exits.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roaming from Glasgow to Kowloon Walled City, Laura Waddell's \u003ci\u003eExit\u003c\/i\u003e is deft, compelling and deep; revealing the extent to which the political is always personal. There are no simple escapes in these studies of exclusion, entrapment and exile yet Waddell proves in the persuasive empathy and acuity of her writing that it is possible to throw open our windows to light and sound from outside, elsewhere, one another.” —\u003ci\u003eDarran Anderson, author of Imaginary Cities and Inventory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501358159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40716006785230,"sku":"9781501358159","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c8e30603-42cb-4bee-8f50-f9df9dab7308.jpg?v=1640927496","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501358159","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}