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Title: The Language of Houses
Author: Alison Lurie
Narrator: Nancy Linari
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-19-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Summary:
In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. The Language of Clothes came to be highly regarded in the literature of couture and design. Lurie has returned with The Language of Houses, a provocative and entertaining journey through the architecture of houses and buildings and the divided spaces within come to reflect the attitudes and purposes of the organizations and people who inhabit them. What makes a house is in the eye of the beholder, and the word can mean anything from church to office to domicile and more and relies on the use of materials such as stone and wood and stucco and the roles of stairs and windows, tight interiors and open expanses. Structures under scrutiny include schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, houses and homes. Filled with literary references from Kafka to Hawthorne and charming hand-drawings by Karen Chen, Luries new work is an essential and highly entertaining new contribution to the literature of buildings and architecture.

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