Odd book tracks shopping carts, wins prize
April 16th, 2007 by Conquistador
I’m sure we’ve all seen a shopping cart stashed somewhere in amongst a clump of weeds or tossed down a ditch and wondered how it got there. But would you have been compelled to write a book about it? Well if you had, maybe you could have won a prize like Julian Montague.
Montague penned The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification last year and won the Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Handed out by The Bookseller, the book from publisher Harry N. Abrams beat out five other finalists for the prize.
According to the publisher, Stray Shopping Carts “introduces a groundbreaking classification system for abandoned shopping carts. Accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings, this unique guide depicts the diversity of an often overlooked phenomenon . . . At once rigorous and absurd, this book allows the layperson to identify and classify their own cart encounters, based on the situation in which the carts were found.”
Well, however you can get published, I guess.
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