Home in America: On Loss and Retrieval

by Thomas Dumm

Book Overview

An extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of home, through explorations literary and political, philosophical and deeply personal, by the acclaimed author of Loneliness as a Way of Life.

Home as an imagined refuge. Home as a place of mastery and domination. Home as a destination and the place we try to escape from. Thomas Dumm explores these distinctively American understandings of home. He takes us from Thomas Jefferson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674057716
• ISBN13: 9780674057715
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Belknap
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"