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Overheard in America Kindle Edition

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The author of the irresistible Overheard series eavesdrops across America, catching enticing slivers of conversations ranging from the hilarious to the heartrending.

Imagine you're riding in a crowded elevator in New York City and overhear two young women talking: "Her personality makes her prettier." Or perhaps you're on the beach in Miami when the man beside you confesses: "It would have been a completely different life." Maybe you're lunching in Chicago when the lady at the next table declares: "I don't have a cold. This is the way I look without makeup!" If you're fascinated and intrigued, you're not alone. With an unassuming camera and countless notepads, artist Judith Henry has documented the hopes, fears, and real emotions that make Americans tick.

Henry has been using overheard sentences and photographs in her art since 1979. The author of Overheard at the Museum and Overheard While Shopping has now traveled cross-country to assemble Overheard in America, featuring more insights and eye-openers by anonymous people from all walks of life. Henry has always been a voyeur and an eavesdropper, hearing firsthand the praises, complaints, joys, and heartaches of real-life people. In her observations -- from Los Angeles to Chicago, from Miami to New York, and places in-between -- she's heard Americans' daily quarrels and hard-earned wisdom. On the beach or at restaurants, riding the train or dancing at bars, Americans have unknowingly shared their most beguiling and basic truths. Startlingly funny and starkly honest, Overheard in America captures the wonderful essence of our daily lives, offering a coolly unaltered portrait of America today.

Length: 256 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Judith Henry's art has been exhibited internationally in New York, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and London, among other places. She also designed works for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1997, her book, Anonymous True Stories, was published. She also has authored Overheard at the Museum, Overheard While Shopping, Overheard in Love, and Overheard at the Bookstore. She lives in New York City. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B000MGATV2
Publisher : Atria Books (24 October 2006)
Language : English
File size : 6323 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 256 pages

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AxeMan

The streets seem different when you pay attention

Reviewed in the United States on 3 November 2006

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I have always been surprised to hear the things that people say to one another as if nobody is listening. Overheard in America captures, for me, the banality, the warmth, the humor, and yes, the idiocy and thoughtlessness that accompanies every step you take on the streets of Urban America. Who are these people? Turns out they are everybody. How great it could be if you could harness the energy and candor so that people would speak their minds and be heard, not just eavesdropped upon. And I love the look of the book. It is so unstatic. Some pages made me do a double take -- to see if what I thought I saw was for real. Some people will just say, Oh -- I've seen that, heard that. And that's why to buy it. Especially for your friends who shy away from big cities and the grit and banality of urban life.

Joe Stander

Easy to pick up, hard to put down

Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2006

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I've already read this book 5 times - it's easy to get caught up in it because the remarks are all real snippets of conversation, and the pictures are equally real slices of life. What I especially like, however, is that the pictures and quotes were not taken together, so the relationship between them is fluid; everchanging depending on my own mood and frame of reference. Just as one never steps in the same river twice, this book is a little diffferent every time you pick it up. Great for the coffee table and anywhere spontaneous reading happens, I hope Ms. Henry keeps the series going!

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Jaime Davidovich

Over here,Over there, Overheard

Reviewed in the United States on 20 November 2006

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I am a foreigner in this country. A friend of mine suggested to buy " Overheard in AMerica" to understand this very unusual place. Even tough a lot of things I do not understand ( I am foreigner), it offers a personal and funny view of USA. I realized how many obese (fat) people live here. I can see the people in USA have nice clothes. I also see some sexy girls in Miami and Los Angeles. I am not a reporter like Mr Borat but I can report and recommend this book. I am so excited that I am going to order more copies for Christmas presents ( If you are jewish is a good Hanukah gift) If you live outside the USA this is a great introduction to the USA. When you come here (if you have enough money) you will overheard so many things you never heard before. I told you, I am a foreigner.

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