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Epic Space : The Architectural Diaries by Ian Martin (2018, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Random House

ISBN-101783523174

ISBN-139781783523177

eBay Product ID (ePID)240131261

Product Key Features

Book TitleEpic Space : the Architectural Diaries

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSatire, General

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Humor

AuthorIan Martin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIan Martin's swearing is an exercise in linguistic baroque that deserves Grade I listing . . . broad comedy for the joy of it., "Ian Martin's swearing is an exercise in linguistic baroque that deserves Grade I listing . . . broad comedy for the joy of it." -- RIBA Journal

Dewey Decimal828.9202

SynopsisEpic Space is a hilarious take on contemporary culture as viewed through the twisted prism of 'Martin', amoral architectural consultant with a penchant for a long lunch and powerful friends, including members of the Cabinet and HRH the Prince of Wales. Written in weekly diary form, Martin's is a mad and woozy version of our own: one in which Martin and his friend, the nanofuturologist Beansy, can invent Kryptogel - a newbuilding material developed using 'hard air'. It's a world where the property wing of the Church of England builds buy-to-let almshouses while 'bouncy mega-mosques' have helium-stiffened minarets. An arts correspondent is sacked by a Sunday newspaper and replaced with his own overdressed architectural dachshund. Soot becomes a valuable stock market commodity. A hipster skyscraper is called the Blard. And an ambitious planis hatched to turn the North around so that it faces south. Big questions are asked: Is Texture The New Fragrance? Is Modern Modernism Just Post-Modernism But With A Neo-Modernistic Coat On? How Fat is Your Face print? And, reassuringly, there are still plenty of boozy lunches.

LC Classification NumberPR6113