Common Place: The American Motel

by Bruce Bégout

Literary Nonfiction. American West. Urban Studies. Translated from the French by Colin Keaveney. COMMON PLACE is the second part of a triology begun with Zeropolis, a broad archeological inquiry into the meanings of our daily urban world. Begout's essay restores the poetry to that essential element of the contemporary imagination that is the motel, at the same time dissecting its myth. Far from a mere sample of the "American way of life," the motel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979617782
• ISBN13: 9780979617782
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Otis Books ] Seismicity Editions
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.