David Malouf The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

What makes for a happy life?Amid the constant chatter of todays world, with its 24hour news cycles, Twitter and mobile communications, David Malouf returns to the ancient question of what makes us happy. With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is, and what makes it possible he returns to the "highest wisdom" of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jeffersons way with words, happiness became a "right," and contrasts joy in the flesh, as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt, with the way we view our bodies today. In a world become ever larger and more impersonal, Malouf finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is a book to savour and reflect upon by one of Australias greatest novelists. | David Malouf The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World