{"product_id":"book-of-unconformities-speculations-on-lost-time","title":"Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBook of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHugh Raffles\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780804197991\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePantheon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e400\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eInsectopedia, \u003c\/i\u003ea powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Hugh Raffles's two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Unconformities \u003c\/i\u003eis grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events they've engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time | Hugh Raffles | Hardcover | 9780804197991 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks B 1778312","offer_id":49814203400344,"sku":"1778312","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81bQqpr1MbL.jpg?v=1788534573","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/book-of-unconformities-speculations-on-lost-time","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}