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Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can working parents in America--or anywhere--ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Picador Edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book asks whether working mothers in America, or anywhere, can ever find true leisure time. Are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time," in which we are in frantic life management mode until we are sound asleep?
