The Examined Life – How We Lose and Find Ourselves - Hardcover

Grosz, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393079546 ISBN 13: 9780393079548

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

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By turns edifying and moving. Grosz offers astute insights into the perplexities of everyday life.--Trisha Andres

Engaging, frank, and with many penetrating insights. His short, succinct chapters have both the tension and the satisfaction of miniature detective or mystery stories.--Michael Holroyd

Impossible to put down... it will leave you wiser about humanity than you were when you picked it up.--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree

Grosz's vignettes are so brilliantly put together that they read like pieces of bare, illuminating fiction... utterly captivating.--Robert Collins

[Grosz] compresses years of analysis into short chapters that feel like minimalist, suspenseful detective stories. At the end of each story, a secret is revealed; often, it's a secret which you've also kept.--Joshua Rothman

A beautifully written, affirmative, and nuanced account of a professional life in service to psychoanalytic healing... a work of exceptional grace.--Kimberlyn Leary

The Examined Life.... shares the best literary qualities of Freud's most persuasive work. It is... an insightful and beautifully written book... a series of slim, piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks. [A] deeply affecting book.--Michiko Kakutani

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Longlisted for the Guardian first book award, a Sunday Times bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Marvellous' (The Times), 'Excellent' (Guardian), 'Completely magical' (Mail on Sunday)

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0393079546
• ISBN 13: 9780393079548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240