Mason Currey Daily Rituals (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Daily RitualsCondition: NewEAN: 9781529059960ISBN: 9781529059960Publisher: PicadorFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/11/2020Item Height: 196mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 220gAuthor: Mason CurreyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to WorkISBN-10: 1529059968Description: 'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work.Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Music Dance & Theatre, Language & Reference, Literary Criticism, Indoor Games & Puzzle BooksRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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