Implosion: Memoir of an Architect's Daughter

✍ Scribed by Garber, Elizabeth W

• Book ID: 110446641
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781631523519

✦ Synopsis

What could be cooler, thinks teen Elizabeth Garber in 1965, than to live in a glass house designed by her architect dad? Ever since childhood, she's adored everything he loves—his XKE Jaguar, modern art, and his Eames black leather chair—and she's been inspired by his passionate intensity as he teaches her about modern architecture. When Woodie receives a commission to design a high-rise dormitory—a tower of glass—for the University of Cincinnati, Elizabeth, her mother and brothers celebrate with him. But less than twenty years later, Sander Hall, the mirror-glass dormitory, will be dynamited into rubble.
Implosion: Memoir of an Architect's Daughter delves into the life of visionary architect Woodie Garber and the collision of forces in the turbulent 1970s that caused his family to collapse. Soon after the family's move into Woodie's glass house, his need to control begins to strain normal bonds; and Elizabeth's first love, a young black man, triggers...
Number of Words in Auth: 3
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Elizabeth W. Garber
Original Source : Mirc New Files TrainPack 23
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Garber, Elizabeth W.
Title Length : 009
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