{"product_id":"9780981286990","title":"Room Behavior","description":"A woman sits alone in a darkened boiler-room. A man enjoys hanging suspended from the ceiling. A dirty room indicates the secret sexual proclivities of its occupant. A curtain rustling in the breeze portends fear and paranoia.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The purpose of a room derives from the special nature of a room. A room is inside. This is what people in rooms have to agree on, as differentiated from lawns, meadows, fields, orchards.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoom Behavior\u003c\/b\u003e is a book about rooms. Composed of texts and images from the most varied sources – including crime novels, decorating manuals, anthropological studies, performance art, crime scene photos, literature and the Bible, to name a few – Kovitz shapes the material through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition to create an original, fascinating and darkly funny rumination about the behavior of rooms and the people that they keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Like the rooms he depicts, the pages of this book are host to an evocative and thought-provoking life of their own.” - Uptown Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Strange and clever.” - Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The book is a unique mini-coffee table paperback, beautifully designed.... Much more than a ‘gift’ book, Room Behavior is something to pause and reflect on whenever you think about rearranging your furniture.” — Fast Forward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“This is a book to keep, to review again and again. Funny, but deep.” — Umbrella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreyf 25th Anniversary edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Treyf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49997598720240,"sku":"9780981286990","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780981286990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}