{"product_id":"the-happy-life-quarterly-essays-issue-41-2011","title":"QE41: The Happy Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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 – David Malouf returns to the “highest wisdom” of the classics, looks at how, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s way with words, happiness became a “right”, and examines joy in the flesh as depicted by Rubens and Rembrandt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a world become ever larger and impersonal, he finds happiness in an unlikely place. This is an essay to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Malouf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44068897620137,"sku":"9781863955195","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781863955195.jpg?v=1714101680","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-happy-life-quarterly-essays-issue-41-2011","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}