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We live in small worlds. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But what happens when something occurs, from within or without, that changes all that? The first book in the mesmerizing How To Live trilogy, How We Are examines how we negotiate change in our everyday lives - the way we build personal narratives around the people, places and things that surround us, and what happens when our story is disrupted, whether by small acts or profound change. Drawing on personal stories from everyday lives in transition, and a staggering range of literary and cultural references, from Rebecca to Mad Men to Proust, Deary shows us how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own.
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Exhilarating, lyrical, consoling... His voice is pleasingly sardonic one of a peer who finds this stuff as difficult and disorientating as the rest of us (Oliver Burkeman Guardian)
A book about human nature. It's crammed with ideas. It makes your head spin, in a good way (William Leith Spectator)
Fascinating, profound, wonderfully well-observed... [How We Are] could change lives (Bel Mooney Daily Mail)
An honest, self-searching voice, rich in images and characters' stories (Antonia Macaro Financial Times)
A book about human nature. It's crammed with ideas. It makes your head spin, in a good way (William Leith Spectator)
Fascinating, profound, wonderfully well-observed... [How We Are] could change lives (Bel Mooney Daily Mail)
An honest, self-searching voice, rich in images and characters' stories (Antonia Macaro Financial Times)
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0141979631
- ISBN 13 9780141979632
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We are creatures of habit, and we live in small worlds. But what happens when change disrupts our lives? This book, the first in a trilogy, offers profound insight into the human mind and heart- how we are, how we break, how we mend.We are creatures of habit, and we live in small worlds. But what happens when change disrupts our lives? This book, the first in a trilogy, offers profound insight into the human mind and heart- how we are, how we break, how we mend.'It takes guts to realise change is called for, and more to follow it through. This book should help.' Guardian'Wow! This book makes your head spin, in a good way.' William Leith, Spectator'Fascinating, profound, wonderfully well-observed . How We Are could change lives.' Bel Mooney, Daily Mail''Are you living the life you want to lead?' That was the question that Deary answered by changing his own life in order to write a book that could change yours.' Carole Cadwalladr, Observer We live in small worlds. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. Drawing on personal stories from everyday lives in transition, and a range of literary and cultural references, this book shows us how we can resist being mere habit machines, and make our acts and our lives more fully our own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780141979632
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