Overview
āSo beautiful ... a fantastic book.ā āZadie Smith, best-selling author of White Teeth
In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual professions, Josh Cohen explores a new way for us to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carrollās Alice and Harper Leeās Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education as depicted in Jane Eyre and as seen through the eyes of Sandy Stranger in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
He discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwinās Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguroās Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goetheās Young Werther and Sally Rooneyās Frances haveāand donāt haveāin common as they experience first love; how Middlemarchās Dorothea Brooke deals with the vicissitudes of marriage. Vis-a-vis old age and death, Cohen considers what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynne Robinsonās Gilead and from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusaās The Leopard.
Featuring:
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ AliceāLewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Scout FinchāHarper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Jane EyreāCharlotte BrontĆ«, Jane Eyre
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ John GrimesāJames Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ RuthāKazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Vladimir PetrovitchāIvan Turgenev, First Love
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ FrancesāSally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Jay GatsbyāF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Esther GreenwoodāSylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ Clarissa DallowayāVirginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Ā Ā Ā ā¢ And more!
This book title, How to Live. What to Do (In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature), ISBN: 9780593316207, by Josh Cohen, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (October 26, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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