Board Games

by Eric Thurm

Book Overview

"How we should think about board games, and what do they do to us as we play them?"

Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479826952
• ISBN13: 9781479826957
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 6.9"