The Language of Houses: How Buildings Speak to Us

by Alison Lurie

Book Overview

In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883285607
• ISBN13: 9781883285609
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Delphinium Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"