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Jane Brox

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born

September 04, 1956 in The United States

gender

female

website

http://janebrox.com/about.html

genre

Nonfiction, History, Poetry

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JANE BROX is the author of Clearing Land, Five Thousand Days Like This One, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Here and Nowhere Else, which received the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. She lives in Maine"

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Books by Jane Brox

Average rating: 3.78 · 227 ratings · 69 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light 3.73 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family 3.67 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century.”
― Jane Brox, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

tags: electricity

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“As a stalwart reader of printed books, I’m left to wonder what will happen to the wide, slow silty river of the their history, to the countless volumes waiting now in the abandoned silence of library stacks. Stacks: The word itself connects books to the harvest, to corn and hay. They were always earthbound. Smell the must, feel the brittle, browning pages between your thumb and forefinger. The tears, the cracked spines, the stains and folds. Even if we readers forget them, printed books will hold us in their memory.”
― Jane Brox

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“Time and task were both disorienting, for if you were to remove everything from our lives that depends on electricity to function, homes and offices would become no more than the chambers and passages of limestone caves- simple shelter from wind and rain, far less useful than the first homes at Plymouth Plantation or a wigwam. No way to keep out cold, or heat, for long. No way to preserve food, or to cook it. The things that define us, quiet as rock outcrops - the dumb screens and dials, the senseless clicks of on/off switches- without their purpose, they lose the measure of their beauty and we are left alone in the dark with countless useless things.”
― Jane Brox, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

tags: electricity

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