What if this were enough? : essays
Title:
What if this were enough? : essays
Author:
Havrilesky, Heather, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2018]
Physical Description:
xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"--
Language:
English
Contents:
The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed -- Running on empty -- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado -- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house -- Miracle of the mundane.
ISBN:
9780385542883
Format :
Book
