The silence of animals

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Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? This book explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals.

The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs

'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright'

Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? In this chilling and beautiful sequel to Straw Dogs, John Gray explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals. Drawing on an extraordinary array of writers who are mesmerized by extremity, from Ballard to Conrad, Gray makes us re-imagine our place in the world.

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The Silence of Animals

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The powerful beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling straw dogs john gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs poems fiction and philosophy to make us re imagine our place in the world writers as varied as ballard borges freud and conrad are mesmerised by forms of human extremit Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

The Silence of Animals

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A searching captivating look at the persistence of myth in our modern world by nature volatile and discordant the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright in a book by turns chilling and beautiful john gray continues the t Uiterlijk 25 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 27 februari 2014

Aantal pagina's: 240

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: John Gray

Tweede Auteur: Gray John

Co Auteur: Pulteney Enterprises

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd

Co Uitgever(s): PEN

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 14 mm

Product lengte: 198 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 130 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm

Verpakking lengte: 196 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 360 g

EAN: 9780241953914

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