In Mid-Air: Points of View from over a Decade Hardcover – 18 October 2018
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'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator
'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell
In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam Gopnik. Known for his ability to perceive 'the whole world in a grain of sand', he uses this format to take a dizzying range of subjects and intricately explore their meaning to our lives - as people, as citizens and as families.
From how he works so that his daughter can have holes in her clothes, to why appropriation is more empowering than oppressing; from French sex to binge-watching TV, from the secret of a happy marriage to why we should mention the war - each topic is illuminated by his erudition and wit.
As in their original form on the radio, Gopnik's essays - each one a pleasure garden of wry confessions, self-deprecating asides, wordplay and striking insights - feel like the most intimate of conversations between writer and reader; yet at the same time they capture a public forum of pithy debate and tender persuasion. Above all, In Mid-Air initiates a sense of wonder in the ordinary that yearns to be shared.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date18 October 2018
- ISBN-101786489228
- ISBN-13978-1786489227
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Like a personal diary, the book serves as an unconscious time capsule . . . because of the care with which Gopnik develops his sketches, they serve as a gentle reminder of the fundamental absurdity of many of our obsessions.
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- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1786489228
- ISBN-13 : 978-1786489227
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