- Softcover
- New
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.Grand Eagle Retail
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
Condition: New
£ 22.57
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Paperback. Most books ask for your attention. This one asks for your honesty.We have built a world exceptionally good at looking away. We have made comfort into a virtue and avoidance into a personality. We scroll past what we cannot bear to feel, we perform the version of ourselves that gets applause, and we call the whole arrangement peace. It is not peace. It is a held breath. And somewhere underneath it, in the part of us we've agreed not to examine, the truth is still sitting there, waiting.This book goes there.It is a descent, and it is meant to be. It walks into the shadow, the place where a person and a people bury everything the daylight self refuses to own, and it turns on the light. What you find there is not comfortable. But discomfort, it turns out, is not the same as harm. Sometimes discomfort is the first honest thing that has happened to you in years.You will laugh in these pages, and the laughter will be real. You will be moved, and the feeling will be real. And then, somewhere near the end, the book will do the thing you did not see coming. It will turn around and look back at you. It will show you the seat you have been sitting in the whole time, and ask why you were so comfortable there.Because that is the wager underneath all of it. That suffering is not noise to be silenced or edited out of a life. That it means something. That it reveals something true about the structure of being human, and about the distance between who we perform and who we are. We live in an age that has all but abandoned this idea, that treats every hard thing as a problem to be optimized away. This book insists on the older, harder wisdom: that you cannot be transformed by what you refuse to face.So it will not resolve neatly for you. It will not hand you a moral and send you home lighter. It will do something rarer. It will hold up a mirror at the exact angle you spend most of your life avoiding, and then it will ask the only question that has ever changed anyone: What are you refusing to see?The old stories all say the same thing. The treasure is guarded by the dragon. The gold, the meaning, the self you could still become, all of it waits on the far side of the thing you are most afraid to look at.This book is that threshold.Welcome to the Culture. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Culture (Paperback)
- Author
- Collin Edwards
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
Grand Eagle Retail
Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 12, 2005
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