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Title: Consolations: The solace, nourishment & underlying meaning of everyday words
Author: WHYTE DAVID
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 03/12/2019
Imprint: CANONGATE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid – loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear – boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for truth.
Beginning with ‘Alone’ and closing with ‘Work’, each chapter in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation.
Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.
ISBN: 9781786897633
Dimension: 220mm X 144mm
Pages: 192
Edition: 01