The Sensualist

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A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, Gary Shteyngart is one of the most celebrated and viral essayists of our day. ‘The Sensualist’ collects his most electric pieces, showcasing why the New York Times describes Gary as ‘one of his generation’s most exhilarating writers’. Gary chases capybaras, the largest (and cutest) rodent in the world. He joins 7500 fellow passengers on the world’s biggest cruise ship. He schleps around New York in search of the best martini, and goes all the way from Turin to Tokyo in pursuit of the perfect blue suit. To Gary, a sensualist isn’t a glutton or an aesthete – and certainly not a snob – but someone who finds the sublime in the details of everyday life.

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'Gary Shteyngart keeps getting better' Literary Review 'The abiding miracle of Shteyngart's work is that it seems just as timely as a Shouts & Murmurs gag in this week's New Yorker while staying fixed to the timeless absurdity of human life' Washington Post In an age of billionaire ascetics and Silicon Valley self-optimizers, international bestselling author Gary Shteyngart instead proposes pleasure. Not self-improvement, no five-year plan – just paying glorious, greedy attention to the world directly in front of you. That's the spirit behind The Sensualist, which collects Shteyngart's most intoxicating essays on the art of living well: he goes on a worldwide quest to pet a capybara, embarks on a martini crawl across New York, and journeys from Milan to Tokyo in pursuit of the perfect blue suit. He puts down his phone and looks up at the stars. Funny, moving and quietly philosophical, The Sensualist makes the case that the things money can't buy – friendship, living in the moment – have become quiet acts of political resistance, and teaches us to appreciate the joys of life, no matter what.

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Dimensions 21.6 × 13.8 cm
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Paperback
Pages

300
Language

English
Edition

Export ed
Dewey

814.6 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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