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Michael Foley

Embracing the Ordinary

Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life

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Produktdetails

Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erschienen
2012
Sprache
English
Seiten
336
Infos
336 Seiten
ISBN
978-1-84983-914-3

Hauptbeschreibung

In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain,Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely bookGuardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life.A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal Scotsman

Kurztext / Annotation

In recession-chastened, soddenly staycationing Britain,Foley may well have devised a new bestseller format: a how-to book offering a way of escape ... [a] lovely bookGuardian It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet, with characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity - draws on the works of writers, thinkers and artists who have celebrated and examined the ordinary life, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of the everyday. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think. Intelligent, funny and entertaining, Foley shows us how to find contentment and satisfaction by embracing the ordinary things in life.A convincing argument for the beauty of the seemingly banal Scotsman