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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 14 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Susanna Burney. |
| Summary |
In Stuck, the author of the highly praised Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto identifies a rather striking social trend: many people are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, the wrong career, the wrong town, or with the wrong friends, some of them even say they want to make a change but... somehow... never get the job done. A self-described "adolescent in size-ten shoes who is also a happily married homeowner with a master's degree," Anneli Rufus knows whereof she speaks. In this book, she draws on her own life experience as well as interviews with others who are also-in some way or another, and to differing degrees-immobilized. Tracing the many subtle ways in which American culture often conspires to keep us stalled, Rufus delivers a long-awaited diagnosis for our day and age: stuck. But there can be a light at the end of the tunnel; Rufus also tells the stories of people who managed to become unstuck and of others who, after much reflection, decided that where they are is best. After all, she says: "What looks to you like paralysis looks to others like passion. What looks to you like a rut, others would call commitment, true absorption in a topic, a relationship, a career, a pursuit, a place. What looks to you like boredom, others call commitment. And even contentment." Stuck is a wise and passionate exploration of the dreams we hold dearest for ourselves-and the road to actually achieving them. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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American Dream.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Self-defeating behavior -- United States.
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Change (Psychology)
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Burney, Susanna.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781593164164 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1593164165 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11001921 |
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