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Paper (An Elegy)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Ian Sansom
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    256
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins (August 18, 2015)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9780062385239
    ISBN-10:
    0062385232
    Weight:
    9.92oz
    Dimensions:
    5.5" x 8.25" x 0.91"
    Case Pack:
    72
    File:
    hc-Metadata_Only_HarperCollins_US_Metadata_20260518052532-20260518.xml
    As low as:
    $14.62
    List Price:
    $18.99
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-HC
    Discount Code:
    A
    Folder:
    hc
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    United States
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    William Morrow Paperbacks
  • Overview

    Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear.
    Would anything be lost?
    Everything would be lost.

    Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, fireworks and flypaper, photographs and playing cards, tickets and tea bags. We are paper people.

    But the age of paper is coming to an end. E-books regularly outsell physical books. E-tickets replace the paper variety. Archives are digitized. The world we know was made from paper, and yet everywhere we look, paper is beginning to disappear. As we enter a world beyond paper, Ian Sansom explores the paradoxes of the greatest of man-made materials and shows how some kinds of paper, and the ghosts and shadows of paper, will always be with us.

    Paper: An Elegy is a history of paper in all its forms and functions. Both a cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of paper, this book is a timely meditation on the very paper it is printed on.