Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter (eBook)

Nina Maclaughlin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
240 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-24646-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;No other book has made me want to re-read Ovid and retile my bathroom floor, nor given me the conviction that I can do both. I loved it."e; Rosie Schaap, author of Drinking with MenA warm and inspiring book for anyone who has ever dreamed of changing tracks, Hammer Head is the story of a young woman who quit her desk job to become a carpenter. Writing with infectious curiosity, Nina MacLaughlina Classics major who couldnt tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriverdescribes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand. Filled with the wisdom of writers from Ovid to Mary Oliver and MacLaughlins own memorable accounts of working with wood, unfamiliar tools, and her unforgettable mentor, Hammer Head is a passionate book full of sweat, bashed thumbs, and a deep sense of finding real meaning in work and life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 8 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Handwerk
• Schlagworte: Apprentice • Apprenticeship • bookshelves • Boston • Cambridge • Career Change • Carpentry • CLAMP • classicist • classics • feminist • hands • Home • Job • Labor • Manual • Memoir • Remodeling • Renovation • SAW • Screwdriver • Skills • strong woman • tape measure • Tools • Trade • Woman • Women • Wood • Woodworking • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-393-24646-9 / 0393246469
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24646-9 / 9780393246469