Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time - Softcover

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Jay Griffiths read English at Oxford and has written extensively for (amongst others) the Guardian, the Observer, and the London Review of Books.

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Why does time seem so short? Can it run out? What is '24-hour' society? Why does it seem to move so slowly in the countryside and quickly in the cities? What is cow time and where would you find a coconut clock? 'Pip Pip' is a book for those who suspect there's more to time than clocks – an infectiously enthusiastic argument for other, more extraordinary times, the diverse cycle of nature, of folk tale or of carnival. Jay Griffiths examines the way past and future are seen; how modernity's speed damages nature's time; how women's time differs from men's and how children's time is different from either. Rejecting the idea that time is money, she asks rather whose money is made from whose time. This book should change the way we view time – forever.

'An 'irresistably provocative' and political analysis of time in our personal lives. The White Rabbit and the Slacker have different perspectives on the notion of time: this book renders it as textured and ductile, as potentially wild. Her wittily enthusiastic thesis is that time too long has been used as a took to power: as a manifesto 'it could cause a revolution'.'
IAIN FINLAYSON, 'The Times, Books of the Year'

'Like the seminal socialist and feminist and ecological works, ''Pip Pip' articulates what thousands have felt but no one has been able to put into words'. Suddenly shapeless concerns are brought to into focus. Outrage takes the place of confusion, fascination displaces complacency. Cheeky, intelligent, always gripping, 'Pip Pip' reintroduces us to a dimension we've utterly neglected. It will be 'the opening salvo in a new battle over the human spirit'.'
GEORGE MONBIOT

'A whirl of a book about speeding time and slowing time, stretching time and contracting time, male and female time, poetic time, even wild time and time to enjoy. 'Any page will get you hooked'.'
NEW SCIENTIST