{"product_id":"9780099549031","title":"The Examined Life","description":"Author: Grosz, Stephen\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780099549031\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Mar 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003efirst book award, a \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Marvellous' (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e), 'Excellent' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian), \u003c\/i\u003e'Completely magical' (\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTELLER**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is about learning to live.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEchoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds herself daydreaming as she returns home from a business trip to a young man loses his wallet, to the more extreme examples: the patient who points an unloaded gun at a police officer and the compulsive liar who convinces his wife he's dying of cancer. The resulting journey will spark new ideas about who we are and why we do what we do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This moving book will make the reader think of Freud's keenly observed and literary-minded case studies...piercing chapters that read like a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Grosz is a superb storyteller and tells lots of his patients' stories with sensitivity, but also with great acuity. You might keep thinking you recognise things about people you know' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150421110942,"sku":"UBD-9780099549031","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780099549031.jpg?v=1786964937","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780099549031","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}