How to Live. What to Do (Hardcover)

Hardcover. A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literaturefrom how Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go. So beautiful . a fantastic book. Zadie Smith, best-selling author of White TeethIn 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 Carrolls Alice and Harper Lees 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 Baldwins Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguros Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goethes Young Werther and Sally Rooneys Frances haveand dont havein common as they experience first love; how Middlemarchs 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 Robinsons Gilead and from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas The Leopard.Featuring: AliceLewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass Scout FinchHarper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre John GrimesJames Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain RuthKazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go Vladimir PetrovitchIvan Turgenev, First Love FrancesSally Rooney, Conversations with Friends Jay GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Esther GreenwoodSylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Clarissa DallowayVirginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway And more! Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…