Description: This listing is for the hardcover book "The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home" by Pico Iyer. This 303-page book measures 6 1/4" x 8 3/4". This is a new book and has never been read. It is in excellent condition. Copyright 2000. Please see the photos for more detail. Money-back guarantee. From the dust jacket: Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands anchored on a spinning globe that mixes and matches East and West. Now he casts a philosophical eye upon this curious state of flatness. In the transitional village that our world has become, travel and technology fuel each other and us. As Iyer points out, everywhere is so made up of everywhere else, and our very should have been put into circulation. Yet even global beings need a home. Using his own multicultural upbringing (Indian, American, British) as a point of department, Iyer sets out on a quest, both physical and psychological, to find what remains constant in a world gone mobile. He begins in Los Angeles International Airport, where town life - shops, services, sociability - is available without a town, and in Hong Kong, where people actually live in self-contained hotels. He moves on to Toronto, which has been given new life and a new literature by its immigrant population, and to Atlanta where the Olympic Village inadvertently commemorates the corporate universalism that is the Olympics' secret face. And finally, he returns to England, where the effects of empire-as-global village are still being sorted out, and to Japan, where in the midst of alien surfaces, Iyer unexpectedly finds a home. As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed. Please feel free to ask any questions.
Price: 6.99 USD
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
End Time: 2024-11-25T17:58:07.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.38 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Subject: Technology
Book Title: Global Soul : Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Social Aspects, Popular Culture, International Relations / General, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Travel, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Pico Iyer
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
