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This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/03/2016

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The Golden Gate Bridge is the most famous bridge in the world. It is also, not entirely coincidentally, the world s only bright-orange bridge. But it wasn t supposed to be that way.
In this book, fellow bridge-lovers Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols tell the story of how it happenedhow a bridge that some people wanted to be red and white, and some people wanted to be yellow and black, and most people wanted simply to be gray, instead became, thanks to the vision and stick-to-itiveness of a few peculiar architects, one of the most memorable man-made objects ever created.
Told with playful paper cut-outs and irresistible prose, "This Bridge Will Not Be Gray" is a joyful history lesson in picture-book forma gorgeously crafted story that teaches us how beauty and inspiration tend to come from the most unexpected places. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in, even if it s just a color.
ISBN:
9781940450476
9781940450476
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-03-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
McSweeney's Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
261.87x214.88x19.56mm
Weight:
0.75kg
Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers was born in Boston in 1970. He is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, The Unforbidden is Compulsory, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, Teachers Have It Easy, Surviving Justice, What is the What, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, The Wild Things, Zeitoun, A Hologram for the King, The Circle and Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

A Hologram for the King and The Circle are both currently in production for major film adaptations. Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney's independent publishing house, the 826 National network, and the nonprofit organisation ScholarMatch. He lives in Northern California with his family and Heroes of the Frontier is his seventh novel.

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