What if this were enough? : essays / Heather Havrilesky

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 220 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780385542883
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 152.4 HAV
Contents:
The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.
Summary: Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 152.4 HAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available non fiction 008268

The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.

Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification of suffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism.

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