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02550aam a2200349 i 4500 001 DD03A512084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 230313t20242024onc b 000 0 eng 020 $a 9781552454725 (softcover) 020 $a 155245472X 035 $a (OCoLC)1371749265 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCO $d IHY $d VP@ $d CLE $d NLC $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn-ab 050 04 $a HF5430.6.C2 $b B53 2024 082 04 $a 381/.1109712334 $2 23/eng/20231013 100 1 $a Black, Kate $q (Kate Grace), $e author. 245 10 $a Big mall : $b shopping for meaning / $c Kate Black. 250 $a first edition. 260 $a Toronto : $b Coach House Books, $c [2024] 263 $a 202402 300 $a 173 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) 520 $a "A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, what makes life worth living? In less than a century, the shopping mall has morphed from a blueprint for a socialist utopia to something else entirely: a home to disaffected mallrats and depressed zoo animals, a sensory overload and consumerist trap. Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton Mall--a mall on steroids. It's the site of a notoriously lethal rave for teenagers, a fatal rollercoaster accident, and more than one gun-range suicide; it's where oil field workers reap the social mobility of a boom-and-bust economy, the impossibly large structure where teens attempt to invent themselves in dark Hollister sales racks and weird horny escapades in the indoor waterpark. It's a place people love to hate and hate to love--a site of pleasure and pain, of death and violence, of (sub)urban legend. Can malls tell us something important about who we are? Blending a history of shopping with a story of coming-of-age in North America's largest and strangest mall, Big Mall investigates how these structures have become the ultimate symbol of late-capitalist dread and, surprisingly, a subversive site of hope. Ultimately, a close look at the mall reveals clues to how a good life in these times is possible."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 610 20 $a West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, Alta.) 650 0 $a Shopping malls $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Shopping $x Psychological aspects. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012341.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DD03A512084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search