Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Alain De Botton

RRP: £18.99

Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON

Publication Date : 02/04/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A characteristically lucid exploration of our working lives, a report from the under-charted worlds of the office, factory, fishing fleet and logistics centre, that seeks along the way to find meaning in what occupies most of our waking lives. Latest philosophical musing from the author of three international bestsellers including "How Proust Can Change Your Life".

Publisher's description:

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. This title heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, looking at the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.

ISBN: 9780241143537