{"product_id":"9780593316207","title":"How to Live. What to Do","description":"By: Josh Cohen     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature—from how Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguro’s\u003ci\u003e Never Let Me Go.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“So beautiful ... a fantastic book.” —Zadie Smith, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual professions, Josh Cohen explores a new way for us to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Harper Lee’s Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education as depicted in \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre \u003c\/i\u003eand as seen through the eyes of Sandy Stranger in \u003ci\u003eThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHe discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwin’s \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eand in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go. \u003c\/i\u003eHe makes clear what Goethe’s Young Werther and Sally Rooney’s Frances have—and don’t have—in common as they experience first love; how \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch’s \u003c\/i\u003eDorothea Brooke deals with the vicissitudes of marriage. Vis-a-vis old age and death, Cohen considers what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynne Robinson’s \u003ci\u003eGilead \u003c\/i\u003eand from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eAlice—Lewis Carroll, \u003ci\u003eAlice's      Adventures in Wonderland \/ Through the Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eScout      Finch—Harper Lee, \u003ci\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eJane      Eyre—Charlotte Brontë, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eJohn      Grimes—James Baldwin, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eRuth—Kazuo Ishiguro, \u003ci\u003eNever      Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eVladimir      Petrovitch—Ivan Turgenev, \u003ci\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eFrances—Sally Rooney, \u003ci\u003eConversations      with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eJay      Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eEsther      Greenwood—Sylvia Plath, \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eClarissa      Dalloway—Virginia Woolf, \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003cb\u003eAnd more!\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":46759056081123,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780593316207","price":179.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780593316207.jpg?v=1751658369","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9780593316207","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}