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A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Tim Parks
ISBN: 9780099548881
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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A story of the author's quest to overcome ill health. It confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer.
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health.
| ISBN | 0099548887 | | Pages | 352 | | ISBN13 | 9780099548881
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 329 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 07 Jul 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 26 | | DEWEY | 616.0472 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh; it made me cry; and it made me seriously think about taking up Vispassana meditation" -- Will Self The Times "A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop" -- David Lodge Guardian "This is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about it" Financial Times "A movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than breathing and meditation" -- Susan Hill The Lady "Funny, painful and quietly profound book" -- Doug Johnstone Scotsman  Be the first to write a customer review
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