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Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences
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Product Description
The minute the alarm clock punctures our dreams, we go to work. We have convinced ourselves that productivity is the name of the game and that leisure is a notorious sign of laziness. In Endangered Pleasures, Barbara Holland insists that enough is enough. It's time to kick back, relax, and relish the truly good things in life. "Delightfully quirky".--The Boston Globe.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1129542 in Books
- Published on: 1995-03-31
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .88" w x 5.75" l, .72 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
First cigars and gin topped the list. Then red meat, Cadillacs, coffee with caffeine, and sleeping late all began to edge toward extinction. Barbara Holland makes an impassioned defense of life's little pleasures in a book that will entertain diehard sinners, comfort the secretly licentious, and encourage those who just need a little nudge to abandon jogging and no-fat salad dressing.
From Publishers Weekly
"Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots," declares Holland (Secrets of the Cat), introducing this collection of entertaining, genteel meditations. As the subtitle hints, the author, living in the Virginia countryside, is no sybaritic renegade but a woman who can find happiness in antinomies like "Working" and "Not Working," "Buying Things" and "Saving Money," and "Going Out" and "Staying In." She writes with conversational ease, and some observations linger: To the miserly, "a penny spent is a penny mourned"; mail is "one of life's small recurring pleasures"; sports, "unlike life, are played according to rules." Holland even reveals that she drives without using her seat belt. Illustrations.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Holland starts off with tributes to sunrise and coffee, moves on to clothing, and then directly into more hedonistic pleasures, such as happy hour, porters, cruises, and gambling, in these to-the-point, frequently wicked essays. The author thumbs her nose at the exercise-prone, cholesterol-conscious, low-impact society she finds herself amid. A refreshing change of pace. Denise Perry Donavin
