The Book of Delights

Name: The Book of Delights
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781980013068

Author: Ross Gay

Narrator: Ross Gay

Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/12/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Motivational & Inspirational, Literary Collections

Synopsis

The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay's The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages-that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

This book is, in fact, a sheer delight. Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is one of the rare times a marketing caption promising something like pure joy actually lived up to the product and while I have spent multiple years reading through this, each time I return it is a burst of bliss direct into my......more

Goodreads review by Lucy

Exactly what it purports to be. It’s delightful. For anyone looking for some brief accounts of joy to buoy them. Thank you, Ross Gay.......more

Goodreads review by James

2.5 stars — My reading choices have been skewing pretty dark lately. Deliberately so for the month of October, but also long before that. Slightly masochistic of me, I know, with the realities of 2020 already being scary and grim enough as they are (global pandemic, Tr**p, national reckoning on raci......more