Adam Gopnik

The Real Work

On the Mystery of Mastery

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Produktbeschreibung

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 132mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781529414653
• ISBN-10: 1529414652
• Artikelnr.: 69482632

Autorenporträt

Adam Gopnik is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has won three National Magazine awards for essays and for criticism. The author of numerous bestselling books, including Paris to the Moon, he lives in New York City.

Rezensionen

Among the uplifting pleasures of Gopnik's writing is the range and ardour of his enthusiasms. If his only truly fanatical pursuit is making sentences, he seems to intuit that his best ones - his truest - are those that are unselfconsciously committed to their subject, and vitalised by the passionate curiosity that also reins them in New Statesman