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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-
- ISBN
- 9780802123510
- Book Title
- Naked at Lunch : a Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Travel, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Special Interest / General, Social History, Essays & Travelogues
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802123511
ISBN-13
9780802123510
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204196005
Product Key Features
Book Title
Naked at Lunch : a Reluctant Nudist's Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Special Interest / General, Social History, Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Travel, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-446100
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Naked At Lunch "Hilarious, absorbing and--to adapt Blake's comment on Milton--a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing." --Geoff Dyer "A strangely compelling, riotously funny traipse through the world of nudism. Mark Haskell Smith is a worthy heir to the George Plimpton school of journalism. He's not there to mock; he's there to experience humanity in all its full-monty complexity." --J. Maarten Troost, author of Headhunters on My Doorstep and The Sex Lives of Cannibals " Naked at Lunch is a total joy. Mark Haskell Smith is a fine reporter, a trenchant cultural observer and a spectacular writer. He's the best kind of participatory journalist; one who stands proudly with his subjects even as he stands apart from them. The naked cruise chapter is a tour de force and a worthy addition to the canon of great cruise writing. Even if you've never been nude in your life and have no plans to be in the future, this book will thrill you with its hilarious and outrageous stories and move you with its essential humanity." --Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion "Mark Haskell Smith turns out to be an ideally curious point man into the bizarre and complicated world of modern-day nudism. If there's a funnier, more interesting book about being naked, I'd very much like to read it." --Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist " Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation." --Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem "Throwing both caution and clothing to the wind, novelist and journalist Haskell Smith strikes a winning combination of personal and journalistic narrative . . . . Informative and entertaining . . . . A witty and insightful read." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An amusing and earnest attempt to understand the appeal of nudism. . . . With solid reporting and scholarship, Smith delves into the genesis of the global nudism movement, constantly enlivening material that could have gotten stale. . . . Smith makes you laugh and think. A thoughtful and entertaining analysis of why so many still want to ditch their clothes and let it all hang out." -- Kirkus Reviews, Hilarious, absorbing and—to adapt Blake's comment on Milton—a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing."—Geoff Dyer Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation."—Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Hilarious, absorbing and—to adapt Blake's comment on Milton—a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing."—Geoff Dyer A strangely compelling, riotously funny traipse through the world of nudism. Mark Haskell Smith is a worthy heir to the George Plimpton school of journalism. He's not there to mock; he's there to experience humanity in all its full-monty complexity."--J. Maarten Troost, author of Headhunters on My Doorstep and The Sex Lives of Cannibals Naked at Lunch is a total joy. Mark Haskell Smith is a fine reporter, a trenchant cultural observer and a spectacular writer. He's the best kind of participatory journalist; one who stands proudly with his subjects even as he stands apart from them. The naked cruise chapter is a tour de force and a worthy addition to the canon of great cruise writing. Even if you've never been nude in your life and have no plans to be in the future, this book will thrill you with its hilarious and outrageous stories and move you with its essential humanity."—Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Mark Haskell Smith turns out to be an ideally curious point man into the bizarre and complicated world of modern-day nudism. If there's a funnier, more interesting book about being naked, I'd very much like to read it."—Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation."—Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Throwing both caution and clothing to the wind, novelist and journalist Haskell Smith strikes a winning combination of personal and journalistic narrative . . . . Informative and entertaining . . . . A witty and insightful read."— Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hilarious, absorbing and—to adapt Blake's comment on Milton—a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing."—Geoff Dyer A strangely compelling, riotously funny traipse through the world of nudism. Mark Haskell Smith is a worthy heir to the George Plimpton school of journalism. He's not there to mock; he's there to experience humanity in all its full-monty complexity."—J. Maarten Troost, author of Headhunters on My Doorstep and The Sex Lives of Cannibals Naked at Lunch is a total joy. Mark Haskell Smith is a fine reporter, a trenchant cultural observer and a spectacular writer. He's the best kind of participatory journalist; one who stands proudly with his subjects even as he stands apart from them. The naked cruise chapter is a tour de force and a worthy addition to the canon of great cruise writing. Even if you've never been nude in your life and have no plans to be in the future, this book will thrill you with its hilarious and outrageous stories and move you with its essential humanity."—Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Mark Haskell Smith turns out to be an ideally curious point man into the bizarre and complicated world of modern-day nudism. If there's a funnier, more interesting book about being naked, I'd very much like to read it."—Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation."—Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Hilarious, absorbing and—to adapt Blake's comment on Milton—a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing."—Geoff Dyer Naked at Lunch is a total joy. Mark Haskell Smith is a fine reporter, a trenchant cultural observer and a spectacular writer. He's the best kind of participatory journalist; one who stands proudly with his subjects even as he stands apart from them. The naked cruise chapter is a tour de force and a worthy addition to the canon of great cruise writing. Even if you've never been nude in your life and have no plans to be in the future, this book will thrill you with its hilarious and outrageous stories and move you with its essential humanity."—Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Mark Haskell Smith turns out to be an ideally curious point man into the bizarre and complicated world of modern-day nudism. If there's a funnier, more interesting book about being naked, I'd very much like to read it."--Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation."—Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Praise for Naked At Lunch Hilarious, absorbing and—to adapt Blake's comment on Milton—a sustained celebration of the invention of clothing." —Geoff Dyer A strangely compelling, riotously funny traipse through the world of nudism. Mark Haskell Smith is a worthy heir to the George Plimpton school of journalism. He's not there to mock; he's there to experience humanity in all its full-monty complexity." —J. Maarten Troost, author of Headhunters on My Doorstep and The Sex Lives of Cannibals Naked at Lunch is a total joy. Mark Haskell Smith is a fine reporter, a trenchant cultural observer and a spectacular writer. He's the best kind of participatory journalist; one who stands proudly with his subjects even as he stands apart from them. The naked cruise chapter is a tour de force and a worthy addition to the canon of great cruise writing. Even if you've never been nude in your life and have no plans to be in the future, this book will thrill you with its hilarious and outrageous stories and move you with its essential humanity." —Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion Mark Haskell Smith turns out to be an ideally curious point man into the bizarre and complicated world of modern-day nudism. If there's a funnier, more interesting book about being naked, I'd very much like to read it." —Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist Naked at Lunch is insightful, brave, and inspiring. With extraordinary honesty and humor, Haskell Smith faces down social and personal inhibitions to experience both a fascinating subculture and a moving personal transformation." —Jillian Lauren, author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem Throwing both caution and clothing to the wind, novelist and journalist Haskell Smith strikes a winning combination of personal and journalistic narrative . . . . Informative and entertaining . . . . A witty and insightful read." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) An amusing and earnest attempt to understand the appeal of nudism. . . . With solid reporting and scholarship, Smith delves into the genesis of the global nudism movement, constantly enlivening material that could have gotten stale. . . . Smith makes you laugh and think. A thoughtful and entertaining analysis of why so many still want to ditch their clothes and let it all hang out." — Kirkus Reviews
Dewey Decimal
613.194
Synopsis
People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch , being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism," as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle poque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given "naturist" magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, Haskell Smith uncovers nudism's amusing and provocative past. Naked at Lunch is equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith dives into the nudist world today. He publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs, observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist's paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco's controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on the Big Nude Boat, a Caribbean cruise full of nudists., People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch , being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism," as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given "naturist" magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, Haskell Smith uncovers nudism's amusing and provocative past. Naked at Lunch is equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith dives into the nudist world today. He publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs, observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist's paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco's controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on the Big Nude Boat, a Caribbean cruise full of nudists.
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