“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream
The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude, Được vậy thì hay quá!. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form, Được vậy thì hay quá!. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales, Được vậy thì hay quá!. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay, Được vậy thì hay quá!.
Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry, Được vậy thì hay quá!. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life, Được vậy thì hay quá!.
The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide, Được vậy thì hay quá!. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành, Được vậy thì hay quá!. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng)..... Ra là vậy.