In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? In luminous prose, with ideas to savour and reflect upon, Malouf distills millennia of thought and philosophy in The Happy Life into a fascinating and tangible argument.
In The Happy Life David Malouf addresses one of the most fundamental questions of all: what makes for a happy life? He asks why, when so many of the essential 'unhappinesses' - premature death, famine, plague, material poverty - have largely disappeared in the developed world, does happiness continue to elude us?