{"product_id":"paper-an-elegy-9780062385239","title":"Paper: An Elegy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bad Book Affair \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paper--an international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLet us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaper 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaper: An Elegy\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSansom, Ian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eIan Sansom is the author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction. He is a former Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and a former Writer-in-Residence at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast. He is currently a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and he writes for \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe London Review of Books.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692594991378,"sku":"9780062385239","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a539f55-d315-445d-997a-c8352500b55e.jpg?v=1734128692","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paper-an-elegy-9780062385239","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}