Promises Promises

Adam Phillips

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Faber and Faber, 2002

0571209734 / 9780571209736

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Promises, Promises (2002) ? Adam Phillips (Faber & Faber) ISBN: 9780571209736 ? Condition: Good ? Sold by Crappy Old Books? What are promises if not tiny, elegant lies we agree to believe on purpose? In Promises, Promises , Britain?s wittiest psychoanalyst-essayist, Adam Phillips , invites you into the waiting room of desire and hands you a magazine with all the pages missing. He writes about the vows we make to lovers, children, politicians, gods, and?most dangerously?ourselves; how every promise is a story about the future told by a person who has never met it. Phillips is that rare thinker who can discuss Freud without sounding like a museum audio guide. He pirouettes from literature to daydreams, from nursery to consulting room, showing how the human appetite for ?later? structures everything from romance to self-help. He suggests?calmly, mischievously?that we keep promises not because we?re good, but because we?re curious about who we?ll have to become to keep them. And the promises we break? Those are the biographies we almost wrote. Expect aperçus that land like neat espresso shots, sentences that begin politely and end by rearranging the furniture, and examples that feel uncomfortably accurate: the promise to be a new person on Monday; the promise that a book will fix us by page 200; the promise that love will make us simple, when it reliably makes us interesting. Phillips?s trick is to make the obvious feel newly scandalous and the scandalous feel oddly reasonable. This Good copy from Crappy Old Books? has that dignified paperback patina?discreet spine crease (lived experience), faint sun-kiss to the cover (Mediterranean? windowsill?), and pages that turn like a considered opinion. It?s handsome enough for the nightstand, portable enough for the queue, and resilient enough for marginalia in pencil you?ll pretend not to write. Read it if you enjoy your psychology lightly carbonated and your philosophy flirtatious. Keep it if you suspect the most consequential promises are the ones we make when nobody?s listening. And leave it visible: visitors will assume you?re the sort of person who has complicated thoughts about hope , and the attention span to finish them. THIS BOOK BEARS THE CRAPPY OLD BOOKS STAMP. IF THAT IS UNDESIRABLE PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. THE STAMP MARKS WHICH IS USUALLY TO THE FRONT AND BACK INNER PAGES SAYS SOLD BY CRAPPY OLD BOOKS WITH WEB SITE URL. IT IN NO WAY DEMINISHED FROM THE READING. IF YOU WANT A PRISTINE BOOK, PLEASE FIND ANOTHER BOOK IN BETTER CONDITION SOMEWHERE ELSE.…

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Título
Promises Promises
Autor
Adam Phillips
Editorial
Faber and Faber
Año de publicación
2002
Estado
Good
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0571209734
ISBN 13
9780571209736

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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.

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