Egg
A Dozen Ovatures
$36.97
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2023
Summary
The egg is a paradox—both alive and not alive—and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg’s deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens.
From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world to a cosmic egg. An oracle to Romans…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393531503 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393531503 |
| Author: | Lizzie Stark |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 441g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 160mm x 236mm |
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Critics Review
“Stark proves to be an excellent storyteller…This delightful paean to the egg is equal parts fun, philosophical, educational, and irreverent.”
“Crack this book like an egg and suck up 200 pages of Lizzie Stark delightfulness! Here is early career Jacques Pepin making sous vide eggs at Howard Johnson’s! Gender-shifting chickens! Greedy eggers! Maniacal collectors! Egg is eclectic and funny, informative and endlessly surprising… Like the egg itself, this book is a perfect, miraculous package.” – Mary Roach, bestselling author of Fuzz
“Egg bursts forth as a joyous triumph in the fresh field of body-part literature. Lizzie Stark writes with wit, verve, and warmth. I loved every page.” – Florence Williams, author of Heartbreak
“Fun, interesting and thoroughly enjoyable, this book explores the humble egg from angles you never imagined.” – Luxury London
Lizzie Stark
Lizzie Stark is a participation designer and the author of three nonfiction books: Egg, Pandora’s DNA, and Leaving Mundania. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, io9, and on the Today Show, among other outlets. She lives in Massachusetts.
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