Hammer Head - The Making of a Carpenter

While working at a Boston newspaper, Nina MacLaughlin applied for a job as a carpenter's assistant. In Hammer Head she tells the story of becoming a carpenter-the joys and frustrations of making things by hand; the challenges she faced as a woman in an occupation that is 99 per cent male-and how manual labour changed the way she sees the world.

About the author

Nina MacLaughlin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a carpenter. Formerly an editor at the Boston Phoenix, she has written for the Believer, Bookslut, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Nina MacLaughlin, MacLaughlin Nina
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2016
• EAN: 9780393352320
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35232-0
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: 8 illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Memoirs, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / Carpentry, Carpentry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Carpentry and joinery skills and techniques