The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living - Couverture rigide

Brunner, Bernd

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1612193099 ISBN 13 : 9781612193090

Editeur : Melville House, 2013

Synopsis

“A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

An utterly charming study of the history of lying down—which is more complicated than you might think

We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner’s ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the “slow living movement” to Stone Age repose—when people did not sleep lying down—and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.

Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view—the other side to our upright, productive lives. Brunner makes an eloquent case for the importance of lying down in a world that values ever-greater levels of activity, arguing that time spent horizontally offers rewards that we’d do well not to ignore.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bernd Brunner is the author of Inventing the Christmas Tree, Moon: A Brief History, Bears: A Brief History, and The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium. His essay “The Wild Dogs of Istanbul” was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2013. He lives in Istanbul, where he is at work on a novel set in Turkey. Visit him at www.berndbrunner.com.

Lori Lantz has translated Bernd Brunner’s Bears: A Brief History and Julia Voss’s Darwin’s Pictures: Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837–1874.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melville House
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1612193099
• ISBN 13: 9781612193090
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible