Consolations Consolations

Consolations

The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

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Publisher Description

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning.

Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation.

Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2019
7 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canongate Books
SELLER
Canongate Books Limited
SIZE
2.2
MB
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