How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature

by Josh Cohen

Book Overview

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 literature--from how Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

"So beautiful ... a fantastic book." --Zadie Smith, best-selling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593316207
• ISBN13: 9780593316207
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"