The art of belonging / Hugh Mackay
- Bib ID:
- 6570493
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mackay, Hugh, 1938-, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan, 2014
- ©2014
- 296 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781742614250 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The Art of Belonging advances the argument put forward in Mackay's bestselling The Good Life: a 'good life' is not lived in isolation or in the pursuit of independent goals; a good life is lived at the heart of a thriving community, among people we trust, and within an environment of mutual respect. Drawing on 50 years' experience as a social researcher, Mackay creates a fictional suburb, Southwood, and populates it with characters who - like most of us - struggle to reconcile their need to belong with their desire to live life on their own terms. He chronicles the numerous human interactions and inevitable conflicts that arise in a community when characters assert their own needs at the expense of others. The Art of Belonging is the book that will reignite the conversation about how we want to live; it will provide the framework for those who argue for a particular vision of community, one that sustains, protects and nurtures the many, and not just the few.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Library's N copy signed by Hugh Mackay, 6 June 201.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Art of belonging : it's not where you live, it's how you live
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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