Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences

Clark, Matthew J. C.

ISBN 10: 1609389352 / ISBN 13: 9781609389352

Edité par University of Iowa Press, 2024

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Synopsis :

“You know, I actually think about that an awful lot, like, what is our purpose in life? Why am I here? I always think about some little kid being like, ‘What’d you do with your life?’ And me being like, ‘Well, I sold a bunch of floors.’”<br /><br /> These are the words of Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, the young man who manufactures the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine floorboards on the planet. At least, that’s what Matthew Clark believes.<br /><br /> Set mostly in rural Maine, Bjarki, Not Bjarki is an expansive book. It is a standard work of journalism, describing with nuance and humanity the people and processes that transform the forest into your floor. It is also a meditation on what it means to know another person and to connect with them, especially in an increasingly polarized America. And it is a ghost story about marriage. It is an inquiry into the limits of language and certainty, a rumination on North American colonization, masculinity, gift cards, crab rangoon, bald eagles, and wood, all of it told in an exciting, energized, and original prose.<br /><br /> Bjarki turns out to be someone quite different from whom the author had hoped. A new pine floor buckles. A coyote is shot. A diamond is lost. How do we make sense of the world and of ourselves, especially when the floor beneath us is so unstable; when nothing is quite what we had hoped it would be?

À propos de l'auteur: Matthew J. C. Clark lives and works as a carpenter in Bath, Maine. His essays have appeared in True Story, the Antioch Review, the Seneca Review, Ecotone, the Indiana Review, Fourth Genre, Wag’s Revue, and CutBank.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, ...
Éditeur : University of Iowa Press
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket