Glass, paper, beans
revelations on the nature and value of ordinary things
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1997 - Doubleday/Currency, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
74,750 words, Guess
Page Count
299 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL981666M
- ISBN-100385478194
- OCLC Control Number34782620
- OCLC Control Numberglasspaperbeansr00cohe_0
- Library of Congress Control Number96019273
and 2 more
- LibraryThing27764
- Goodreads2655797
Classifications
- DDC306.3
- LCCGN450 .C65 1997
Description
In Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table in the Someday Cafe to their various points of origin. And through the intimate portraits of three everyday workers - Ruth Lamp, a night-shift supervisor at the Anchor Hocking glass factory in Ohio; Brent Boyd, a third-generation lumberjack from Plumweseep, Canada; and Basilio Salinas, a man who tends the coffee trees at Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico - a whole new world of connections and values area realized as Cohen, Oz-like, draws the reader across time and continents. In prose both sophisticated and stunningly simple, Leah Cohen braids the lives of these three unforgettable workers as she traces the origins, myths, and manufacture of glass, paper, and the beloved coffee bean.
First Sentence
Every day this happens: we rotate into light.
Excerpt
Every day this happens: we rotate into light.
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