Name: Table for Two
Price: 97.92 MYR
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Author: Amor Towles
ISBN: 9781529154108

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Physical Book

Author

Amor Towles

Publisher

Hutchinson Heinemann

Language

English

Pages

451

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781529154108

Table for Two

Amor Towles (Author) · Hutchinson Heinemann · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Table for Two"

A NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022 Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up but by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective makes you feel better anyway The New York Times Book Review An eloquent moving witty and above all useful demonstration of philosophy s power to help us weather the storms of being human Oliver Burkeman author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS Pain Loneliness Grief Injustice Hope Life is hard as the past few years have made painfully clear From personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world sometimes simply going on can feel too much But could there be solace and even hope in acknowledging the hardships of the human condition Might doing so free us from the tyranny of striving for our best lives and help us find warmth humanity and humour in the lives we actually have Could it inspire in us the desire for a better world In this profound and personal book Kieran Setiya shows how philosophy can help us find our way He shares his own experience with chronic pain and the consolation that comes from making sense of it He asks what we can learn from

Amor Towles

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Amor Towles (Boston, 1964) graduated from Yale University and completed postgraduate studies in English Literature at Stanford. He is the author of the novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was successfully adapted into a TV series, and The Lincoln Highway, and the short story collection Dinner for Two, four works published in Spanish by Salamandra which have sold over six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. After working in finance for over twenty years, Towles now writes full-time in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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