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The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence.
In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or Kafka. This engrossing, strikingly original book invites you to experience your life in a new way.
Hating Perfection weaves its stories together with an elegant logic. Our hateful world—painful, unjust, ruthless, fatal—stands revealed as the best of all possible worlds, flooded everywhere by a perfection both alien and addicting. What we want is different from what we get. But the reason why has a divine splendor.
Stand beside the author for a time, and look in the direction he is looking. Your troubles may still be your troubles, but the world will be more than it was.
John F. Williams (Las Vegas, NV), now retired, is a successful, independent venture capitalist. He has traveled widely and lived for ten years in the Far East.
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Zustand: acceptable. This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have considerable notes or highlighting. This is an ex-library book with stickers and markings. Cover image on the book may vary. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 56JTFK000VYI_ns
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Zustand: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers J12B-02015
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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1591027322I5N00
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Paperback. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G1591027322I2N00
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Anbieter: Granada Bookstore, IOBA, Woodlawn, IL, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition/First printing. A couple of edge smudges and a tiny crease to the upper back corner, else fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016277
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Anbieter: G. & J. CHESTERS, TAMWORTH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 359p, 3 full-page colour illustrations, paperback, a fine copy (as new) [9781591027324]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 111182
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Anbieter: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
Paperback. 359p., trade paperback original, first edition with color cover by artist Jesse Lindsay and two uncredited color plates in the text. Autographed by Williams, fine copy. From p.149: "Somehow we need evils in variety and profusion. This cunning world substitutes the ineffable for our banal ambitions." Amateur philosophical treatise arguing that humans have already achieved our highest heaven; the text is thoroughly interspersed with interesting anecdotes and observations from the author's travels in Asia with his Chinese wife. UC Berkeley philosophy professor Hubert L. Dreyfus calls the book "Astonishing! Lively, well written, highly original" in a cover blurb. The first narrative describes an experience with hallucinogenic "Whiskey Lao" outside of Luang Prabang. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 140394
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Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: New. Mint New Copy in stock for immediate dispatch from the UK. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000109829
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