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The Art of the Wasted Day. Patricia Hempl. Viking Hardcover
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| Quantity Available: |
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| Condition: |
Brand New |
| Special Attributes: |
1st Edition |
| Author: |
Patricia Hampl |
| Book Title: |
Art of the Wasted Day |
| Language: |
English |
| Topic: | |
| Format: |
Hardcover |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Publishing Group |
| Genre: | |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Narrative Type: |
Nonfiction |
| Features: |
Dust Jacket |
| Intended Audience: |
Adults |
| Item Height: |
1.2 in |
| Item Length: |
8.5 in |
| Item Weight: |
13.8 Oz |
| Item Width: |
5.9 in |
| Number of Pages: |
288 Pages |
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| Posted for sale: |
More than a week ago |
| Item number: |
1750178577 |
Item description
The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay.
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