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If You Should Fail Joe Moran

If You Should Fail von Joe Moran

If You Should Fail Joe Moran

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If You Should Fail Zusammenfassung

If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace Joe Moran

'There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them' Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass

'Joe Moran is the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have' Matthew Engel

Do you ever feel like a failure?

Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It's the small print in life's terms and conditions.

Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. We need more narratives of failure, and to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.

As Moran shows, even the supremely gifted Leonardo da Vinci could be seen as a failure. Most artists, writers, sports stars and business people face failure. We all will, and can learn how to live with it. To echo Virginia Woolf, beauty is only got by the failure to get it . . . by facing what must be humiliation - the things one can't do.

Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human, and his critique of how we live now, offers comfort, hope - and solace.

If You Should Fail Bewertungen

This is a deeply tender book, and full of wise insight and honesty. Moran manages to be funny, erudite and kindly: a rare - and compelling - combination. This is the essential antidote to a culture obsessed with success. Read it -- Madeleine Bunting
Joe Moran is a brilliant historian, and the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have. He makes the humdrum riveting -- Matthew Engel
There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them -- Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass
A fascinating insight. Moran's honesty is brilliantly raw and uncomfortable at times, but under the apparently bleak message on the surface there is an uplifting truth to be found. For myself, the concept of failure has been redefined -- Matthew Parris
Moran is a wonderful, witty writer -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail *
Moran is a past master at producing fine, accessible non-fiction -- Helen Davies * Sunday Times *
Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
I really love Joe Moran's work, he writes with such generosity and kindness -- Tiffany Watt Smith
These stories are beautifully told, and they are comforting at first... Moran's compassion shines through this gift of a book -- Kieran Setiya * Literary Review *
A calming antidote to the world of professionally failing... What Moran has created is a slim, lyrical and blessedly cool-headed reflection on failure as a universally shared human trial... What he provides, instead of the mechanical business strategies laid out in some popular failure titles, is a selection of fascinating and often moving lives, characterised in some way by their failure -- Megan Nolan * New Statesman *
A beautifully written meditation on life's inevitable setbacks and what he sardonically terms the failing well movement. Moran encourages us to accept our impostor syndromes, to avoid becoming a sporting masochist for whom winning is everything, and to admire the history of West End musicals that were instant, notorious flops -- Steven Poole * Guardian Books of the Year *
A classic anti (or counter-intuitive) self-help treatise -- robustly argued, intellectually sturdy, laced with self-deprecatory humour... it is deeply empathetic to the trials of the creative life * Livemint *

Über Joe Moran

Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and is the author of eight books, including Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV, Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness and First You Write a Sentence. He writes for, among others, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR010931137
9780241422793
0241422795
If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace Joe Moran
Joe Moran
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Penguin Books Ltd
20200924
176
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