Toolbox

By Fabio Morábito

Book Overview

In this charming book, Morabito presents us with a collection of clever, funny, and ultimately profound prose pieces on tools and their very different characters. Paul Eluard's well-known remark... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879378191
• ISBN13: 9781879378193
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Xenos Books
• Length: 103 Pages

Customer Reviews

Incredibly inventive

I'm really impressed by the author's ability to look at something as commonplace as a hammer or a file and find in it a source for real insight into human behavior, because that's what happens--the 12 tools turn out to be 12 types of people. Morabito's intelligence leaves me feeling sorta dumb. And envious!

Cult classic in the making

This is a rare, weird, exceptional sort of book that will entrance the rare, weird, exceptional sort of reader. It sure got me!

5 stars for 12 stars

This book about 12 tools deserves 12 stars, but only 5 are available. Each tool turns out to have a different personality, ingeniously described, with both wit and passion. In fact, if anybody wanted to set up a new zodiac system, these 12 analyses of personality would be the easiest way to do it. It's rare to find a book so clever and insightful.

Triple beauty

This book's a beauty, three times over. The content is really wise, the layout of the book itself is most attractive, and, last but not least, the translation is as smooth and subtle as silk. A winner on all three accounts!

Seeing the ordinary for the first time

This is a sensational book, in the best sense of the words. Beautifully presented, intellectually stimulating, it opens your eyes to everyday objects in a way you will not be able to predict. This Morabito fellow has got to be the Borges of today.