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Author:   Susan Sheehan ,  Howard Means
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
Imprint:   Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.329kg
ISBN:  

9781416575207

ISBN 10:   1416575200
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   24 August 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Part 1 Artful Expressions * Doug Fishbone: Lots of Bananas * James Pettus: Essential Natures * Robin Tarbell-Thomas: To the Fair * Ann and Sam Ritter: To Fly * Leonard Lauder: The Beauty of Small Things Part 2 Thrill of the Chase * Alexandra Stafford: Food of Life * David Hanschen: On the Road Again * Barry Popik: First Words * Cathy Henderson: Buried Treasures * Henry Sakaida: The Go-Between Part 3 Going to Extremes * Gig Gwin: Wordly Riches * Jim Dreyer: Far Shores * Peter Holden: Macs Without End * Marietta Phillips: Bossing Around * Roger Swicegood: Song of Myself Part 4 Pleasures Small and Large * Cathy Runyan: Got Her Marbles * Peggy Dickson: Bird Brains * Harry Kloman: Matters of Fact and Fiction * Judy Konnerth: Two by Two * Steve Spreckelmeier: All Steamed Up * Patricia Corrigan: Thar She Blows! Part 5 Motion Pictures * Lisa Ball: Snow Job * Steve Everett: Blade Runner * Mike Gaines: Hot into the Corner * Jim Murphy: Call of the Wild Part 6 Callings * Jerry Traufler: Masterwork * Walter Pforzheimer: I, Spy * Claire Miller: Family Ties * Ted Furey: For God and Man and Old Ireland * Rose Kramer: Spinning Yarns Part 7 The Sporting Life * Tom Blake: Tiger! Tiger! Burning Bright * Robert Strupp: Good Deals * Kim Eisler: Odds-on Favorite * Larry Kahn: Tiddly Wonks * Matt Dodyk: Holing Out Part 8 Passionate Pursuits * John Sylvester Jr.: The Things We Die for * Sonia Young: Color Me Purple * Claudia Perry: Love of the Game * Daniel Chapin: Route Man * Don Betty: Crossover Artist Acknowledgments

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Roger Rosenblatt<p>Like other first-rate, highly imaginative cultural investigations, this one has a certain brilliant sneakiness to it. What seems at first to be simply a story of how people spend their free time becomes an exceptionally thoughtful examination of the adventures the mind chooses for itself, and, more deeply, a celebration of how the mind is composed. People are what they pursue in their private hours, and Sheehan and Means, having detected this fact, open it up to display the rich complexity of human wishes.

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Susan Sheehan is the author of seven books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Is There No Place on Earth for Me? She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1961 and has written for The New York Times and Architectural Digest, where she is a contributing writer. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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