The Mall

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735273504

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Kill the Mall by Pasha Malla Pdf

"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for Reproduction Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall. After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between "making work" and "engaging the public," all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports. Before long, a series of strange after-hour events rattles our hero, and he sets forth on a nightly quest to untangle the mysterious forces at play in the mall's unmapped recesses. Things quickly get hairy, and our narrator's optimism about his mall residency descends into doubt, and then into a full-blown phantasmagoria of horror and (possibly) murder. With the aid of a weird and wonderful cast of mall-dwelling misfits--including a pony named Gary--our narrator is forced to conclude that his new residence may not be the temple of consumer bliss he initially imagined, but something far more sinister. And who, or what, is benefitting from its existence? Much like the shopping centres it praises and parodies, Pasha Malla’s wildly adventurous novel follows its own internal logic, channeling its narrator’s unshakeable innocence to explore the darker edges of human (and other) nature.

Author : Megan McCafferty
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250209979

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The Mall by Megan McCafferty Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty returns to her roots with this YA coming of age story set in a New Jersey mall. The year is 1991. Scrunchies, mixtapes and 90210 are, like, totally fresh. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after. But you know what they say about the best laid plans... Set entirely in a classic “monument to consumerism,” the novel follows Cassie as she finds friendship, love, and ultimately herself, in the most unexpected of places. Megan McCafferty, beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Jessica Darling series, takes readers on an epic trip back in time to The Mall.

Author : Heidi L. M. Jacobs
Publisher : Nunatak First Fiction
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 198873259X

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Molly of the Mall by Heidi L. M. Jacobs Pdf

"Aspiring novelist Molly MacGregor laments she will never be like the literary heroines she reads about. Not only does she live in what she thinks the most unromantic region in the world, she is named after one of literature's least romantic heroines, Moll Flanders. Set partly at a shoe store at the world's largest shopping mall in Edmonton where Molly works and partly in an English department where she is a student, Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear is a story about love and a story about place. This novel explores Molly's love for the written word, love for the wrong men and the right one, and finally, her hard-won love for her city."--

Author : Richie Tankersley Cusick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590131583

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The Mall by Richie Tankersley Cusick Pdf

A collection of humorous poems about such animals as the walrus, anteater, and boa.

Author : Lisa Scharoun
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786490509

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America at the Mall by Lisa Scharoun Pdf

Since the construction of the first fully enclosed shopping center in 1952, the shopping mall has evolved into the heart of many suburban areas across the United States. More than simply a place to purchase goods, this veritable "temple of consumerism" has become a primary place for community and social interaction and an essential element in many citizens' day-to-day lives. This study explores the spiritual, emotional and physical effects of the enclosed shopping mall on the public, chronicling the growth of the mall, its role in shaping urban and suburban life, its positive and negative impacts on society and the environment, and its future viability. As this work shows, the mall remains rich in symbolic influence, and in many ways mirrors the American condition.

Author : PAUL BARROWS
Publisher : Author House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781463499938

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THE MAN IN THE MALL by PAUL BARROWS Pdf

"The Man in the Mall" is a book that is designed to supply solutions to an age-old problem that continues to go unresolved. The problem being that there are a lot of women who complain about the fact their man doesn't like to shop at the mall with them or anyone else for that matter! Most of the women that I spoke to came across as very annoyed and frustrated when it came to getting their man in the mall. This anger was the result of year after year of trying to get him to go shopping with her, resulting in her going to the mall by herself. All that any of these women wanted to do was to share this- outside- the- home activity with the man in their life. What a concept!This book attempts to show the highlights and lowlights of the dilemma that the shopping mall has been over the years. What few highlights that the mall has had on relationships between men and women are far out weighed by the negative ones. The history behind this battle goes back to the 60''s when the mall experience started expanding across the country. There are many things that the malls did which resulted in turning men off from shopping. It's this cause and affect that we will be delving into throughout "The Man in the Mall."There are many parts to this amalgam that we commonly refer to as the shopping mall syndrome and history would indicate that it requires a multitude of solutions to remedy. This book will reveal the solutions to such questions about going to the mall such as: When do we go? Should just the two of us go together? What size mall, and what type of store? How long should I keep him there? How do I plan this trip to the mall? Does it matter if the mall is close or far away? What department should I take him to when we get there? Is it all right to include the mall with something else? What do I do if I need a babysitter? Do I need to leave him alone, or do I stay with him? Who should drive the first time?

Author : David Charles Sloane,Beverlie Conant Sloane
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801877681

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Medicine Moves to the Mall by David Charles Sloane,Beverlie Conant Sloane Pdf

The shopping mall seems an unlikely place to go for health care services. Yet, the mall has become home to such services as well as a model for redesigning other health care facilities. In Medicine Moves to the Mall, David Charles Sloane and Beverlie Conant Sloane document the historical changes to our health care landscape by exploring the interactions between medicine and place. This unique combination of architectural history and the history of medicine provides a thought-provoking analysis of the geography of the practice of medicine. The book presents three essays, each accompanied by a gallery of historical and recent photos. The authors discuss the rise of modern hospitals and how they were shaped into scientifically sterile and humanly stark "medical workshops." Starting in the 1970s, hospital facilities were altered in appearance to become more friendly and welcoming. The integration of a shopping mall's spaciousness and open design with technology and scientific innovation served in "humanizing the hospital." Most recently, the accessibility and convenience of shopping center and roadside clinics have invited Americans to go "shopping for health" in the increasingly commercialized medical system. Medicine Moves to the Mall will appeal to scholars and professionals in fields ranging from health care to cultural geography and from urban studies to architectural history, as well as to readers interested in the shifting status of medicine in American society.

Author : Paco Underhill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0743235924

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Call of the Mall by Paco Underhill Pdf

Profiling malls as intersections of American consumer marketing, the media, and street culture, an examination of malls as reflections of commercial and social culture considers what malls mean to ordinary people.

Author : Suzi Mirgani
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839433522

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Target Markets - International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall by Suzi Mirgani Pdf

This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with an emphasis on the shopping mall in general and Nairobi's Westgate Mall in particular, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces where the most powerful forces of contemporary culture - the most mainstream and the most extreme - meet on common ground.

Author : Stephen R. Brown
Publisher : Stephen R Brown Publishing
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780976615002

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Jewel of the Mall by Stephen R. Brown Pdf

WWII Memorial: Jewel of the Mall is a full-color photographic book on the WWII Memorial with an introduction by Senator Robert Dole and photographs by renowned photographer Stephen R. Brown. The photographs are exclusive never-to-be duplicated images. Panoramic scenes of the new face of the Mall comprise seventy-five pages of the book while the rest are a documentary of the creation and installation of the sculpture and marble ornamentation.

Author : Matthew Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501314810

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Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton Pdf

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center's, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero's zombie opus Dawn of the Dead. Part memoir and part case study, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the mall and shows that, more than a collection of stores, it is a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : J. T. Way
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822351313

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The Mayan in the Mall by J. T. Way Pdf

This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.

Author : Anthony E. Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony E. Wolf Pdf

Author : Matthew Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501314834

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Shopping Mall by Matthew Newton Pdf

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The mall near Mat thew Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was one of the state's first enclosed shopping malls. Like all malls in their heyday, this one was a climate-controlled pleasuredome where strangers converged. It boasted waterfalls, fish ponds, an indoor ice skating rink larger than Rockefeller Center's, and a monolithic clock tower illuminated year-round beneath a canopy of interconnected skylights. It also became the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero's zombie opus Dawn of the Dead. Part memoir and part case study, Shopping Mall examines the modern mythology of the mall and shows that, more than a collection of stores, it is a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : Wendy Mass
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316040891

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Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall by Wendy Mass Pdf

When 16-year-old Tessa suffers a shocking accident in gym class, she finds herself in heaven (or what she thinks is heaven), which happens to bear a striking resemblance to her hometown mall. In the tradition of It's a Wonderful Life and The Christmas Carol, Tessa starts reliving her life up until that moment. She sees some things she'd rather forget, learns some things about herself she'd rather not know, and ultimately must find the answer to one burning question--if only she knew what the question was. Written in sharp, witty verse, Wendy Mass crafts an extroardinary tale of a spunky heroine who hasn't always made the right choices, but needs to discover what makes life worth living.