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Isn't This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves - Softcover

Foley, Michael

 
9781471154829: Isn't This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1471154823 ISBN 13: 9781471154829
Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Michael Foley, the author of bestselling The Age of Absurdity, wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyone else . . .
 
And so, with characteristic wit and humour, Foley sets out to understand what fun really means, examining its heritage, its cultural significance and the various activities we associate with fun. He investigates pursuits such as dancing, sex, holidays, sport, gaming and comedy, and concludes that fun is not easy, simple and fixed, as many seem to believe, but elusive, complex and constantly changing.

In fact, fun is a profoundly serious business.

His findings will invigorate you with insights, quite possibly help you to understand why the post-post-modern is actually the pre-pre-modern and, at the very least, make you laugh at life.

‘This book is such a wondrous kaleidoscope of rage, based on such a deep reading of all the sources, that I shall be searching out his other works to read forthwith. The man is a marvel.’ Daily Mail

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Foley was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, but has lived most of his adult life in London, working for twenty-three years as a Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Westminster before retiring in 2007 to concentrate on full-time writing. He has published critically-acclaimed poetry, novels and non-fiction, including New and Selected Poems (Blackstaff Press 2011). His first non-fiction book, The Age of Absurdity (Simon & Schuster 2010), was a bestseller and has been translated into seven languages.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1471154823
ISBN 13 
9781471154829
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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