What Is It Like to be Alive?: Fourteen Attempts at an Answer

In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life's mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book's fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a patch of lichen growing on a windowsill, memories of a childhood barber's shop, the inscriptions...