Side Effects
  • Published: 24 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141902029
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Side Effects

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Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don’t mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives.

Phillips also intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happiness, explaining that, in refusing to admit and explore life’s down sides, we can only be living half lives. And through his unique and incisive exploration of literature, Phillips also demonstrates what the great novelists have to tell us about ourselves.

Both illuminating and fascinating on literature as well as life, Side Effects maps our edges as human beings, and, in doing so, goes some way to helping give shape to our lives.
  • Published: 24 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141902029
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

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Praise for Side Effects

The best living essayist writing in English

John Gray

He's brilliant

John Gray

Reading Phillips, you may be amused, vexed, dazzled. But the one thing you will never be is bored

Observer

Though Phillips's territory is complication, he reports back from his travels in the simplest of words. He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists

Gaby Wood

Phillips radiates infectious charm

Sunday Times

Phillipsian' would evoke a vivid, paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head, only to find you were holding it by the tail.

Guardian
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