How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man : Three Incomparable Books of Wit, Charm, and Wisdom Finally Available in One Volume

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L. Rust Hills
David R. Godine Publisher, 1993 - 259 páginas

Obsessively-detailed, and very funny, instructions on nearly everything in life you are very possibly doing all wrong.

Help is here! From how to eat an ice-cream cone to developing "principles" when you have none, the author's mission is to elevate, and ennoble, those fleeting instincts we all harbor to get our lives in order. "Hills is preoccupied primarily with the little things," Nora Ephron wrote in the New York Times"and he writes about them deliciously."

This volume includes three titles previously published individually: How To Do Things Right, How to Retire at 41, and How to Be Good. They have been edited, revised and combined into one volume and the contents will have you laughing out loud, thinking hard, and at least temporarily rearranging your frazzled life. Hills is wise, witty, and very, very funny. But behind the humor, Hills remains a deeply sage and serious writer. This is his best advice, from years of experience, served up from the heart of one of the most charming humorists to grace the American scene.

 

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Two Introductory Revelations
3
Delight in Order
70
How I Happened to Quit Work
85
Life Among the Routines
91
Life Among the Pursuits
113
Life Among the Other Problems
143
What Finally Happened to Me
157
A Modern Good
177
Some Uses and Misuses of Virtue
185
The Somewhat Separate
208
The Extricated Life as Against
219
Toward a Fashionable Morality
232
What Virtue Actually Is and How Exactly to Achieve It
238
How Life Should Be as Against How People Should Be
248
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L. Rust Hills was an author and the fiction editor at Esquire from 1957 to 1964, though he remained associated with the magazine until 1999. Authors he championed include Norman Mailer, John Cheever, William Styron, Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, James Salter, Don DeLillo, Joy Williams, Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and E. Annie Proulx.

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