Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive (eBook)

James Parker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
240 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-09164-6 (ISBN)

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As the unofficial "e;gratitude correspondent"e; for the Atlantic, James Parker has written countless odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("e;Ode to Naps"e;) to the unexpected ("e;Ode to Giving People Money"e;) to the seemingly minor, unexpected and hyper-specific ("e;Ode to Running in Movies"e;). Finally collecting Parker's beloved and much-lauded odes in one place, this volume demonstrates the profound power of the form. Each ode celebrates the permanent susceptibility of everyday humdrum life to dazzling saturations of divine light: the squirrel in the street, the crying baby, the misplaced cup of tea. Parker's odes are songs of praise but with a decent amount of complaining in there, too: a human ratio of moans. Our politics are broken; our world is melting. Parker's odes offer respite but also a glimmer of hope. They represent encounters with whatever might get us through the next five minutes of the impossible, beautiful, overwhelming thing we call living.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: anti-self help • Covid • Culture • Essay • Gratitude • Humor • Joy • Literature • Memoir • Movies • music • odes • Pandemic • parenting • Poetry • Pop culture • punchy
• ISBN-10: 1-324-09164-9 / 1324091649
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-09164-6 / 9781324091646