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The Happy Life : The Search of Contentment in the Modern World
by David Malouf
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- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1863955461
- ISBN 13
- 9781863955461
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About This Item
Black Inc, Australia, 2011. Second Edition. Medium Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Medium Trade Paperback. 132 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Black Inc., Australia, 2011. Second Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what makes it possible - David Malouf returns to the 'highest wisdom' of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson's way with words, happiness became a 'right', and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt. In a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. The Happy Life is writing to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia's greatest novelists. This edition includes responses to The Happy Life by leading commentators, including Robert Dessaix, Anne Manne, Elizabeth Farrelly and Tim Soutphommasane. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; ISBN/EAN: 9781863955461. Inventory No: 19020125.. 9781863955461
Synopsis
David Malouf is the author of eleven novels, as well as bountiful collections of stories, poetry and opera libretti. He has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Prix Femina Étranger and the Australia-Asia Literary Award; he has also been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19020125
- Title
- The Happy Life : The Search of Contentment in the Modern World
- Author
- David Malouf
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1863955461
- ISBN 13
- 9781863955461
- Publisher
- Black Inc
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Philosophy; The Happy Life : The Search of Contentment in the Modern World
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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