Pencil by Beggy, Carol

Pencil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501392245)

Vendor: Carol Beggy
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.95
$14.95
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Pencil by Beggy, Carol

Pencil

$14.95
Pencil by Beggy, Carol

Pencil

$14.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it.

Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object.

Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author: Carol Beggy
ISBN-10: 1501392247
ISBN-13: 9781501392245
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2024
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.20h x 4.60w x 0.60d
By Carol Beggy
By Carol Beggy
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Carol Beggy is an award-winning writer and editor, who worked for many years as a print journalist, including 15 years with The Boston Globe. She has worked as a public relations consultant, a television producer, an editor for blogs and newsletters, a producer and talent booker for podcasts, and speechwriter. She is the author or co-author of 10 books, including six with renowned Boston photographer Bill Brett. She is a graduate of Northeastern University.

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