With his signature élan and expansive curiosity, de Botton explores a diversity of occupationsfrom accountant to aircraft salesman, painter to power-station designer, career counselor to cookie manufacturerand the vast diversity of locations where these occupations are undertaken. In this tantalizing new book, Alain de Botton takes on an activity common to us allthe activity in which most of us spend the majority of our time, but which rarely gets serious attention beyond the realm of cartoons and television sitcoms. Combining narrative virtuosity, a scholar's grasp of history, an intellectual intrepidness, and a dazzling ability to reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary (and vice versa), Alain de Botton has created his own ever-surprising genre into which The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work fits brilliantly.
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