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Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness
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Author
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Willard Spiegelman.
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Publisher
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Picador
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8.25
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5.5
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0.65
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ISBN
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9780312429676
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Pages/Publication Date
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197/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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21717
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Description
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What does it mean to be happy? Ever since the Founding Fathers paired life and liberty with the pursuit of happiness, Americans have been pining for that elusive state of mind. Instead of explaining happiness, though, Willard Spiegelman immerses us in the joyful, illuminating practice of seven simple pleasures—dancing, reading, walking, looking, listening, swimming, and writing—and evokes all of the satisfactions that they have to offer. "In the end, this discourse on seven pleasures leads one to want an eighth: conversation. Spiegelman, like Samuel Johnson, whom he cites frequently, seems as if he would be a wonderful companion. Proof of a good familiar essay may be that it makes you want to have a conversation with its author—or perhaps to feel as though you have."—Philadelphia Inquirer
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