| How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays Contributor(s): Eco, Umberto (Author), Weaver, William (Translator) |
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ISBN: 015600125X ISBN-13: 9780156001250 Publisher: Harpervia OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: This witty and irreverent collection of essays presents Eco's playful but unfailingly accurate takes on everything from militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, librarians and bureaucrats to meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, express mail, fax machines and pornography. "An uncanny combination of the profound and the profane".--San Francisco Chronicle. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Humor | Topic - Travel |
| Dewey: 854.912 |
| LCCN: 95016885 |
| Series: Harvest Book |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.44" W x 7.96" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33-function watches, soccer fans, and more. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
Contributor Bio(s): Eco, Umberto: - UMBERTO ECO (1932-2016) was the author of numerous essay collections and seven novels, including The Name of the Rose, The Prague Cemetery, and Inventing the Enemy. He received Italy's highest literary award, the Premio Strega, was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French government, and was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |