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Author:

Havrilesky, Heather, author.

Title:

What if this were enough? : essays / by Heather Havrilesky.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Havrilesky, Heather.
Happiness.
Conduct of life.
Women--Biography.
Essays.

Contents:

The smile factory -- The happiest place on earth -- To infinity and beyond -- Playing house -- Delusion at the gastropub -- Adults only -- Stuffed-- Running on empty-- Lost treasure -- Land of heroic villains -- The popularity contest -- Tag and release -- Haunted -- Bravado-- Survival fantasies -- True romance -- A scourge of gurus -- My mother's house-- Miracle of the mundane.

Summary:

"Heather Havrilesky attempts to disrupt our cultural delusions and false dichotomies, to unearth moralistic interpretations of mundane human behaviors and interrogate so-called mistakes that we've slowly internalized, and to question the glorification ofsuffering, dishonesty, romantic fantasy, conquest, predation, and perfectionism"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0385542887 : HRD
9780385542883 : HRD

LCCN:

2018001398

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)