Sew Your Own (eBook)

Man finds happiness and meaning of life - making clothes

Flintoff John-Paul Flintoff (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-84765-277-5 (ISBN)

Infos

What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life? John-Paul Flintoff's improbable and very funny book charts a journey through call centres and allotments, rat-catching and Savile Row tailors, to some kind of enlightenment. It is also a book about a man who learns how to crochet - and how you might too. John-Paul Flintoff is a bit of a one-off: a man who embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage by outsourcing his life to Bangalore, then hooks up with Mormons and Buddhists (well, Richard Gere), on a quest for truth and fulfilment. His journey is like a twenty-first century Candide, learning that life's satisfactions, and some kind of response to the concerns of economic meltdown and climate change, lie in learning how to make things for oneself, and mending things that fall apart. Along the way, Flintoff paints pictures with Brit-art oddball Billy Childish, gets apprenticed in Savile Row, grows his own food and spins fibre from nettles. Daringly, he also turns his book over to his wife Harriet, who likes nothing better than a fancy spa and a shop at Liberty's. The results are comic, heartwarming and inspiring.

Rezensionen

Flintoff has the timing of a natural

I don't really understand what you are doing but I wish you every success

This is my kind of book: how to make sense of the modern world. Hats off!

Leading journalist John-Paul Flintoff makes a strong case that individuals can have an impact... very funny, but makes a serious point that is extremely relevant to today.

Very funny - I hope it does well

Very readable in an Adrian Mole-possessed-by-Satan kind of way.

Wonderful, amazing, funny and warm!

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Schlagworte: coronavirus activities • enjoying life under lock down • guardian journalist advice • hobbies to learn • Learn to Sew • self isolation activities • surviving life under lockdown • things to do at home
• ISBN-10: 1-84765-277-8 / 1847652778
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84765-277-5 / 9781847652775