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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hardcover)

by Alain De Botton (Author)
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Praise for The Architecture of Happiness:

“I can’t recommend this book too highly. It gets just about everything right.”
Boston Globe

“Simple, entertaining and brilliant . . . [De Botton’s] great strength is to explain things we always knew but never understood.”
Toronto Star

“Effortlessly erudite . . . he can express complicated ideas so succinctly, poetically and, often, humorously.”
National Post

“De Botton is a lively guide.”
New Yorker


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From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world of work.

We spend most of our time at work, but what we do there rarely gets discussed in the sort of lyrical and descriptive prose our efforts surely deserve. Determined to correct this lapse, armed with a poetic perspective and his trademark philosophical sharpness, Alain de Botton heads out into the world of offices and factories, ready to take in the beauty, interest, and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.

De Botton spends time in and around some less familiar work environments, including warehouses, container ports, rocket launch pads, and power stations, and follows scientists, landscape painters, accountants, cookie manufacturers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and aircraft salesmen as they do their jobs.

Along the way, de Botton tries to answer some of the most urgent questions we can pose about work: Why do we do it? What makes it pleasurable? What is its meaning? To what end do we daily exhaust not only ourselves but also our planet?

Equally intrigued by work’s pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton offers a characteristically lucid and witty tour of the working day and night, in a book sure to inspire a range of life-changing and wise thoughts.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Don't like the narration, Jul 10 2009
By D. Collard (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This is my second audio cd and again I don't like the narration. The material is written masterly by the author who manages to turn the most mundane aspects of our society into something we can appreciate. The writing style borders on the last century's which was annoying until you get used to it. I'm only half way through these cds but I'm afraid I can't recommend them for the drive home.
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