Hampl, Patricia
Summary: The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999