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The Art of the Wasted Day audiobook
- By: Patricia Hampl
- Narrator: Patricia Hampl
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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The Art of the Wasted Day Audiobook Summary
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream
The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of “retirement” in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne–the hero of this book–who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay.
Hampl’s own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor’s beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love–and the loss of that love which forms this book’s silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life.
The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.
Cover Illustration © 2018 Peter Sis
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The Art of the Wasted Day Full Details
| Narrator | Patricia Hampl |
| Length | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Author | Patricia Hampl |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525529750 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Art of the Wasted Day is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: travel memoir, memoir, daydreaming, imagination, wanderlust, narrative nonfiction, leisure, relaxation, books on creativity, biography, spirituality, self help, autobiographies, biographies, biographies and memoirs, motivational books, new age, creativity, happiness, healing, self help books, biographies of famous people, business books, self help books for women, autobiography books, spiritual books, motivation, inspirational books for women, personal growth books, memoirs, self care, gratitude, affirmations, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Body, Mind & Spirit, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Biography & Autobiography, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Additional info
The publisher of the The Art of the Wasted Day is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525529750.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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