What if this were enough? : essays / Heather Havrilesky.
Title:
What if this were enough? : essays / Heather Havrilesky.
ISBN:
9780385542883
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2018]
Physical Description:
xvi, 220 pages ; 22 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1019652476
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