Life: A User's Manual: Great Minds on the Big Questions - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1577310675 ISBN 13: 9781577310679

Publisher: New World Library, 1998

Synopsis

Quotations by Maya Angelou, Joseph Campbell, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and many others are gathered in an inspiring gift book that explores life's pains and pleasures and reflects on its ultimate meaning. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. IP.

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Review:

Believers in synchronicity train themselves to recognize moments when a certain turn of phrase, a particular quote, or a brief paragraph can trigger a life-altering insight. Life: A User's Manual is a collection of these kinds of inspirational quotes, poems, and short essays by the world's most respected thinkers and spiritual leaders. Anthologist John Miller (Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers) has organized Life, A User's Manual into five parts: "Search," "Love," "Faith," "Meditation," and "Death." Some excerpts and quotes ring familiar, such as that passage from Isabel Allende's book about the death of her daughter Paula or the excerpt from Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea. Nonetheless, packaged within this clean, tight anthology, each quote and essay sounds fresh and resonates with life-altering potential. --Gail Hudson

From Booklist:

Prolific anthologist Miller here gathers great thoughts on human beings' most fundamental concerns. A section on life's "Search" offers Walker Percy, Diane Ackerman, Zora Neale Hurston, Deepak Chopra, and Harold Kushner. "Love" is the subject for Frida Kahlo, Dag Hammarskjold, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Maya Angelou, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Patricia Smith Churchland, and Joseph Campbell discuss "Faith," while Mother Teresa, Albert Camus, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marcel Proust, Albert Einstein, and M. F. K. Fisher consider "Meditation." Finally, on "Death," the editors offer selections from Isabel Allende, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Kent Nerburn, and Gretel Ehrlich. Some of the sources here are familiar; others, fairly obscure. Most readers will find at least a few passages that illuminate the paths before them or lighten the loads they bear. Mary Carroll

About this edition

• Publisher: New World Library
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1577310675
• ISBN 13: 9781577310679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Miller John