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Rakoff, David
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Fiction
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English
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Plasticity: Don't get too excited!
โ Scribed by Jones, Rachel
- Book ID
- 109963191
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-0048
- DOI
- 10.1038/nrn2966
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David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a