A Short Guide to a Happy Life
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品牌: Anna Quindlen
基本信息出版社:Random House (2000年10月31日)精装:64页正文语种:英语ISBN:0375504613条形码:9780375504617商品尺寸:12.8 x 1 x 18.2 cm商品重量:172 g品牌:Random HouseASIN:0375504613商品描述内容简介"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination."
In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to "get a life"—to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. "Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us," Quindlen writes, "because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives." Her mother died when Quindlen was nineteen: "It was the dividing line between seeing the world in black and white, and in Technicolor. The lights came on for the darkest possible reason....I learned something enduring, in a very short period of time, about life. And that was that it was glorious, and that you had no business taking it for granted." But how to live from that perspective, to fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.作者简介Anna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels,Object Lessons, One True Thing, andBlack and Blue. HerNew York Timescolumn "Public and Private" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those columns was published asThinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of her "Life in the 30's" columns,Living Out Loud; a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought,How Reading Changed My Life; and two children's books,The Tree That Came to StayandHappily Ever After. She is currently a bi-weekly columnist forNewsweekand resides with her husband and children in New York City.