Extraordinary Theory of Objects

An Extraordinary Theory of Objects

By Stephanie Lacava

It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July with a touch of Joan Didion in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social awkwardness and feelings of uncertainty about the future by taking solace from the strange and beautiful objects she came across in her daily life.

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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publish Date: 11/19/2013
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780061963926
ISBN-10: 0061963925
Language: English

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It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July--with a touch of Joan Didion--in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young American girl's coming of age in Paris. As an adolescent in a foreign country, Stephanie LaCava found an unconventional way to deal with her social awkwardness and feelings of uncertainty about the future by taking solace from the strange and beautiful objects she came across in her daily life. Filled with beautiful illustrations and providing a retrospective of nineties fashion and culture, An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris is sure to be a collector's item for Francophiles or anyone who has ever found security in the strangest of places.

About the Author

Stephanie LaCava is a writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Harper's , Artforum , Texte zur Kunst , the New York Times , the New York Review of Books , Vogue , and Interview.

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