| Description |
249 pages ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Translation of: Naissance d'un pont. |
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Issued also in electronic format. |
| Summary |
From Maylis de Kerangal comes this story of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of an international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Their collective effort to complete the megaproject recounts one of the oldest of human dramas, to domesticate – and to radically transform – our world through built form, with all the dramatic tension it brings: a threatened strike, an environmental dispute, sabotage, accidents, career moves, and love affairs … Here generations and social classes cease to exist, and everyone and everything converges toward the bridge as metaphor, a cross-cultural impression of America today. |
| Subject |
Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction.
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California -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Moore, Jessica, 1978- translator.
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| Added Title |
Naissance d'un pont. English
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| Related To |
Kerangal, Maylis de. Naissance d'un pont. English. Birth of a bridge. (CaOONL)2014903248X |
| ISBN |
9780889228894 (pbk.) : $16.95 |
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0889228892 (pbk.) |
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