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- ISBN
- 9780062230577
- Book Title
- Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Humor
- Topic
- Philosophers, General, Agriculture / General, Books & Reading, Sociology / Rural
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 7.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scraps--including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow--Perry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two, went to college instead of kindergarten, worked for kings, and once had an audience with the Pope. Perry "matriculated as a barn-booted bumpkin who still marks a second-place finish in the sixth-grade spelling bee as an intellectual pinnacle . . . and once said hello to Merle Haggard on a golf cart." Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062230573
ISBN-13
9780062230577
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242890629
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Book Title
Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Philosophers, General, Agriculture / General, Books & Reading, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Humor
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
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"Of the recent books extolling and commending French essayist Michel de Montaigne, Michael Perry's new one might be the Montaignest." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Readers will laugh out loud frequently while taking in this very funny memoir, as this reviewer did, yet it's a profound laughter, the kind that gets you thinking.... One couldn't hope for a better introduction to the work of Perry or Montaigne." -- Library Journal, starred review "Perry's poignant, balanced, achingly funny prose is more than an ode to or critique of Michel De Montaigne. Instead, Perry uses the original essays to better understand his own life and bring a bit more humanity to an increasingly divisive world." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "Perry's refreshing candor, the essence of the personal essay, serves him well.... 'You read Montaigne, you feel like you have a friend,' writes the author, and so readers are likely to feel about Perry." -- Kirkus, Drop whatever you are doing and sit down to read Michael Perry's Visiting Tom....Perry is a craftsman of the highest order....When you go back to doing what you were doing when you picked up this book, you might just see your world with a broader, more humane perspective.
Dewey Decimal
977.5/043092 B
Dewey Edition
23
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