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Confidence
Rowland Manthorpe
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God may be dead, but getting through finals will take a miracle Starter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking philosophical novel about the power – and the dangers – of confidence The nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche was obviously never forced to down an entire jar of stilton by a six-foot, fifteen-stone rugby player... Ellie Taber’s final year at university is hurtling to a close at alarming speed. Defeated by her philosophy dissertation and uncertain as to why she can’t quite commit to ... Read more
God may be dead, but getting through finals will take a miracle Starter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking philosophical novel about the power – and the dangers – of confidence The nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche was obviously never forced to down an entire jar of stilton by a six-foot, fifteen-stone rugby player... Ellie Taber’s final year at university is hurtling to a close at alarming speed. Defeated by her philosophy dissertation and uncertain as to why she can’t quite commit to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408802540
SKU
V9781408802540
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Rowland Manthorpe
Rowland Manthorpe is an editor at Wired magazine. His writing has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic and Spectator. Rowland studied History at Cambridge and Political Theory at the London School of Economics, and has been awarded the Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing by the Guardian and The Fabian Society. Kirstin Smith was ... Read more
Reviews for Confidence
A highly original interplay of narrative and philosophy, fiction and non-fiction, Confidence made me laugh out loud, then sink my head in the pillow realising what the meaning of life really is. If a book could be called ambidextrous, Confidence would be it
Robert Rowland Smith, author of Breakfast with Socrates
Confidence reminds us just how practical the ... Read more
Robert Rowland Smith, author of Breakfast with Socrates
Confidence reminds us just how practical the ... Read more