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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: MIT Press (10 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0262201682
  • ISBN-13: 978-0262201681
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.3 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"Evocative Objects is a collection of great richness and complexity. Reading these essays transforms one's sense of the most commonplace objects, and prompts us to explore the palimpsest of the past within us." --Jill Ker Conway, President Emerita, Smith College, author of The Road from Coorain "Original, absorbing, and beautifully written, this collection of essays will forever change the way you look at the objects in your life." --Helen Epstein, author of Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History

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"A wonderfully evocative (there really is no other word for it) series of meditations on meaningful objects." -- PD Smith, The Guardian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a fascinating and thought provoking book which I have enjoyed a great deal . However, the Kindle edition suffers from odd formatting with seemingly arbitrary page and section run ons. The main irritation is that the footnotes aren't clickable, which means a lots of paging backwards and forwards to the relevant section. Very annoying in an academic book.
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thought-provoking and easy to read 11 Dec 2007
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I bought this book because it seemed to get to ideas I've been using in my latest painting project. Turkle gives a very nice and brief introduction to how she became interested in objects as a path to philosophy and ways of thinking about the world. The vignettes are rather random and I think quite beautiful. This is not a book that will have a great final point. It meanders and allows you to make associations and hopefully draw some conclusions about your own life and the objects in it. I also like that the book itself is a wonderful object. About the size of a hymnal or some other type of book meant to be held and easy to carry around. A very nice book as a gift for someone who has too many things!
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"Evocative Objects" -- insightful and absorbing 10 Oct 2007
By Alice K. - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is a gem. In this collection of essays, the authors reflect on how a seemingly simple object - a rolling pin, a train, a pair of ballet slippers - can serve as an emotional marker and play a powerful role in understanding relationships, life transitions and loss. I'll recommend this book to my book group because it should prompt a lively discussion about the evocative objects of the members.
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"Evocative Objects" --elegant and evocative 8 Oct 2007
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THis is a lovely book, a treat for the imagination. Sherry Turkle has arranged these short essays with photographs and artfully chosen bits of literature, psychology, or cultural theory for accompaniment. Her own essays are erudite, clear, and beautifully written. REading this will prompt enjoyable meditations on your own evocative objects.
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