The Real Work
On the Mystery of Mastery
$25.24
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2024
Summary
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill?
For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: how did the people he was writing about learn their outlandish skill, whether it was drawing a nude or baking a sourdough loaf? In The Real Work—th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529414653 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529414652 |
| Author: | Adam Gopnik |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Among the uplifting pleasures of Gopnik’s writing is the range and ardour of his enthusiasms. If his only truly fanatical pursuit is making sentences, he seems to intuit that his best ones - his truest - are those that are unselfconsciously committed to their subject, and vitalised by the passionate curiosity that also reins them in * New Statesman *[A] springboard for a discussion of art, family, empathy, mortality. Via memoir, analysis and criticism he assembles a celebration of the flaws that make us human… Gopnik is at his most moving when addressing the limited time we have on Earth * Guardian *[A] beautifully written, epigrammatic, penetratingly intelligent book. * TLS *Gopnik is everything, then, that you might hope a seasoned writer for The New Yorker to be. He has a mellifluous style that can lead you into deep waters, and then out again, in the space of two or three paragraphs, while still making the experience rewarding and moving seamlessly on to a new theme. The Real Work is the real deal. * Irish Examiner *
About The Author
Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has won three National Magazine awards for essays and for criticism. The author of numerous bestselling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.
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