{"product_id":"a-short-guide-to-a-happy-life-hardcover","title":"A Short Guide to a Happy Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnna Quindlen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this unusual and beautiful book, Quindlen reflects on what it takes to \"get a life\"--to live deeply and uniquely rather than to merely get through our days. Beautifully designed with evocative photos, the handbook offers guidance on how to live with awareness. 25 photos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination. \u003cbr\u003eIn this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to \"get a life\"--to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. \"Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us,\" Quindlen writes, \"because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives.\" Her mother died when Quindlen was nineteen: \"It was the dividing line between seeing the world in black and white, and in Technicolor. The lights came on for the darkest possible reason....I learned something enduring, in a very short period of time, about life. And that was that it was glorious, and that you had no business taking it for granted.\" But how to live from that perspective, to fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, \u003cb\u003eObject Lessons, One True Thing\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eBlack and Blue\u003c\/b\u003e. Her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e column \"Public and Private\" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those columns was published as \u003cb\u003eThinking Out Loud\u003c\/b\u003e. She is also the author of a collection of her \"Life in the 30's\" columns, \u003cb\u003eLiving Out Loud\u003c\/b\u003e; a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought, \u003cb\u003eHow Reading Changed My Life\u003c\/b\u003e; and two children's books, \u003cb\u003eThe Tree That Came to Stay\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHappily Ever After\u003c\/b\u003e. She is currently a bi-weekly columnist for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and resides with her husband and children in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.18 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52761764233523,"sku":"9780375504617","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/U05qQXo2eW5ualhpS2pwYWRLVkZhdz09.webp?v=1764522068","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-short-guide-to-a-happy-life-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}