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Hating Perfection A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World

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ISBN-10: 1616148756

ISBN-13: 9781616148751

Edition: N/A

Authors: John F. Williams

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The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way.Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world—painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal—stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds, flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. What we want is different from what we get. But the reason why has a divine…    
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Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 5/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 5.81" wide x 9.00" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English