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On Purpose

Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life

Ben Hutchinson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:12th Sep '24

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Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.

How do we live fully?

How do we live successfully?

Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and thinkers to help us live more purposefully, more mindfully – more fully.

Interweaving his own (mis-)adventures with those of authors such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Joan Didion, On Purpose proposes ten ways in which reading and writing encourage us to ask difficult questions, project our minds into the past and future, and see ourselves and others differently.

Engaging, uplifting and aphoristic, this book is for anyone who has lost their sense of direction or wishes to radically transform the way they live.

Praise for Ben Hutchinson:

'An exemplary essayistic mishmash, part history, part criticism, part memoir. His tone is conversational, though distinctly tutorial, and he is not afraid to adopt the approach of the personal trainer or life coach' Hal Jensen, TLS

ISBN: 9780008588496

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm

Weight: 180g

208 pages