Hammer head : the making of a carpenter / Nina MacLaughlin
- Author:
- MacLaughlin, Nina
- Additional Titles:
- Hammerhead : the making of a carpenter and Making of a carpenter
- Published:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Contents:
- Prologue -- Chapter 1: Tape Measure : On the distance between here and here -- Chapter 2: Hammer : On the force of the blow -- Chapter 3: Screwdriver : On screwing and screwing up -- Chapter 4: Clamp : On the necessity of pressure -- Chapter 5: Saw : On severing a part from the whole -- Chapter 6: Level : On shifting, settling, and shifting again -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
- Summary:
- "Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist--'Carpenter's assistant : women strongly encouraged to apply'--despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in [her book] she tells the ... story of becoming a carpenter"--Dust jacket flap.
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- ISBN:
- 9780393239133 (hbk.)
0393239136 (hbk.)
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