Winter's Tale (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Winter's Tale (Movie Tie-In Edition)

by Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale (Movie Tie-In Edition)

Winter's Tale (Movie Tie-In Edition)

by Mark Helprin

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Overview

09/22/2023

Schwarzenegger (Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story), a champion bodybuilder, movie star, philanthropist, and former governor of California (2003–11), gives his motivational recipe for a fulfilling life. Using his varied and multiple careers as examples, he first stresses the importance of taking the time to develop a clear, strategic, and expansive but focused vision. Once a goal has been established, the book emphasizes the importance of hard work, efficiency, self-promotion, and a reassessment of outdated thinking. This title shows the benefit of honestly accepting failures and using them as incentives to move forward. It also highlights the value of listening, learning, and incorporating the experiences of others and the advantage of action-oriented positive thinking. But some readers may find it surprising and unnecessary when Schwarzenegger dismisses the worth of a college education. There's also no mention of his affair with his housekeeper, his divorce, or his admission of decades of sexual misconduct. The book concludes with his emphasis on the critical significance of working with peers and giving back to the community. VERDICT Schwarzenegger provides a useful, logical, and sometimes humorous blueprint for general readers to achieve a successful and satisfying life, although he chooses to avoid talking about his own misconduct.—Dr. Dave Szatmary


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780544320420
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 01/07/2014
Edition description: Media Tie
Pages: 768
Sales rank: 1,102,738
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.97(d)

About the Author

MARK HELPRIN  is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.

Hometown:

Upstate New York

Date of Birth:

June 28, 1947

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

A.B., Harvard University, 1969; A.M., 1972. Postgraduate study at Oxford University, 1976-77.
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