A Short Guide to a Happy Life
#1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion.
“Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live . . . to love the journey, not the destination.”
In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to “get a life”—to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days.
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October 31, 2000Anna Quindlen is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the author of many novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs, and Miller’s Valley. Her memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million copies. While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud. Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.
After Annie
Anna Quindlen
Write for Your Life
Anna Quindlen
Nanaville
Anna Quindlen
Alternate Side
Anna Quindlen
Miller's Valley
Anna Quindlen
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton with an Introduction by Anna Quindlen and an Afterword by Michael Gorra
Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Anna Quindlen
Stuck in the Middle with You
Jennifer Finney Boylan
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen
Then Again
Diane Keaton
Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Edited by Susannah Carson
Black and Blue
Anna Quindlen