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Exit (Object Lessons) Paperback – 3 Sept. 2021

by Laura Waddell (Author)

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Exits are all around us. They are the difference between travelling and arriving, being on the inside or outside. Whether signposted or subversive, personal or political, choices or holes we've fallen through, exits determine how we move around our lives, cities, and the world.

What does it really mean to exit ? In these meditations on exits in architecture, transport, ancestry, language, garbage, death, Sesame Street and Brexit, Laura Waddell follows the neon and the pictograms of exit signs to see what s on the other side.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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176 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date

3 Sept. 2021
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12.24 x 1.47 x 16.51 cm
ISBN-10

1501358154
ISBN-13

978-1501358159
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic; 1st edition (3 Sept. 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1501358154
ISBN-13 : 978-1501358159
Dimensions : 12.24 x 1.47 x 16.51 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 921,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 523 in Etiquette Reference
- 890 in Architectural Criticism & Theory
- 1,082 in Philosophical Aesthetics

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"An incredible writer. Exit is a quite wondrous piece of writing, cleverly and movingly encouraging us to think of the ordinary in new and challenging ways. As it happens, I read this brilliant book while pondering what an 'exit' from the coronavirus lockdown might look like, and the reminder that exits often lead to new and better beginnings was a welcome inspiration indeed." --Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland

"Roaming from Glasgow to Kowloon Walled City, Laura Waddell's Exit is deft, compelling and deep; revealing the extent to which the political is always personal. There are no simple escapes in these studies of exclusion, entrapment and exile yet Waddell proves in the persuasive empathy and acuity of her writing that it is possible to throw open our windows to light and sound from outside, elsewhere, one another." --Darran Anderson, author of Imaginary Cities and Inventory

The perfect book, with the perfect explanation of ideas. -- The Herald

Though physically small, its scope is at once sweeping and intimate, darting ably from urban spaces to individual case studies a consistent pleasure dazzling. --Review 31

About the Author

Laura Waddell is a writer and publisher based in Scotland. In 2019 she won a Write to End Violence Against Women Award for her column in the Scotsman newspaper. She currently sits on the editorial board of Gutter magazine. Her cultural criticism and fiction have appeared in the TLS, Guardian, Kinfolk, McSweeney'sand several anthologies as well as on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland. Exit is her first book.

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Ross Sayers

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2021

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A really enjoyable and wide ranging collection of essays and thoughts on the meaning of 'Exits'. I learned a lot.

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Every exit is someone's entrance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2020

This is a book that knows it will be dated the minute it went to the publishers. It says exactly what date that was, tying into the awful deaths of Vietnamese immigrants in the UK in the back of a truck in Essex. And it does so with a wild abandon and glee, not realising that between submission and publication a massive EXIT will be crowbarred into public life, history will have happened. That's fine, Laura Waddell is writing for that moment, her survey - yet again massively broad as is the wont in with Object Lessons - takes the concept of Exit on a broad journey from the obvious (the sign on the cover), via the cultural (lots of Sesame Street) and of course the metaphysical.

Of all the Object Lesson books I have read this is the most disjointed, the most prone to leap from idea to idea, to stress certain political conceptions of exit/entrance to a forensic level whilst leave other (where is the NO EXIT sign) to the wind. It is also probably the most enjoyable, Waddell is thinking out loud here and whilst she hits a couple of the core concepts (the history of the Fire Exit, New York Shirt Waist Fire), there are lots of non-obvious tangents The piece on Kowloon Walled City could easily be argued out of the book, but sits well in a set of thoughts about buildings which are malleable, exits become corridors, become entrances. Because once you get to the metaphysical level (and before you think about death) an exit is just a transition of place, an exodus a transition of state. She seems to be having the most fun of the Object Lesson authors I have read so far (it is most similar to Political Sign, which may not be surprising as they both tangentially concern themselves with signage).

Waddell leaves her coup de grace to her final chapter however, giving us thirty examples of exits, some frivolous, some aw inspiriting, some tragically sad. It was as if the previous idea fountain was the prologue to thirty short stories about exits, and I loved it.

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Exits explored

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 September 2020

Overall I love this Object Lessons series, but this one was less enjoyable than many of the others. It just didn’t gel for me, being too unfocussed and disjointed, and without any obvious thesis. The author’s random examples of exits, both real and metaphorical, didn’t hang together and felt too random. Some interesting points, to be sure, but in general the book only held my attention in snatches.

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