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and too little attention to where they are

"- San Francisco Chronicle "Combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond

This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of an alternative conception of the self

She stares in disbelief at the meringue dress for which she has drunk only skimmed water for four weeks to fit into

In this series of penetrating essays on politics and literature

The Art of Travel Robert T. Kiyosaki and too little attention toAny Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such