The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: How to navigate the dilemmas of social life - Alain de Botton
- In english. First published in 2019 (e-book).
Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party's names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host's sofa...
-> As always with The School of Life" and Alain de Botton, this book provides ground for a lot of afterthoughts and reasons for deeper analysis, with an immeasurable feeling of seeing that we are not alone in this world of thoughts."