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How to be a Person in the World

Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

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An edition of How to be a person in the world (2016)

How to be a Person in the World

Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life

First edition.
  • 4.00 ·
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  • 13 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"By the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly, featured weekly on New York Magazine's The Cut, this is a collection of brand new, impassioned, and inspiring letters,"--Amazon.com.

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Pages
258

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How to be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life
2016, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Table of Contents

Author's note
Flaws become you. Here comes the (anxious) bride ; My mind likes imagining boys ; The poisons of materialism ; Am I too weird? ; Crushed by an STD
You are uniquely qualified to bring you the world. What would Kanye do? ; My boyfriend has never had a job ; Devil town ; Commitmentphobes of N.Y.C.
Reckoning, anger, & obsession. The cheat sheet ; I'm tired of being so nice ; The weight of rage ; Cheaters become you ; That bitter aftertaste
Weepiness is next to godliness. Drunk no more ; I'm dating my best friend's ex ; How do I get over this betrayal? ; Why don't the men I date ever love me?
Identity & becoming an artist (whether you make art or not). Land of the lost artist ; Lame job, lame life ; Do I make music or have a family? ; This job is killing me
The uncertainty principle. Making friends (out of nothing at all) ; I'm thirty-eight and everything is awful ; Don't shy away ; I don't know ; Career or baby?
Beauty in the breakdown. I feel haunted by my affair ; The good wife ; Full disclosure ; Mourning glory ; The bean eaters.

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Dewey Decimal Class
070.4/44
Library of Congress
BF637.S4 .H3757 2016

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Pagination
xii, 258 pages
Number of pages
258

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OL27211163M
Internet Archive
howtobepersoninw0000havr
ISBN 10
0385540396
ISBN 13
9780385540391
LCCN
2015023592
OCLC/WorldCat
911920974

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