Boredom

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Boredom is written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226768538 (ISBN 10) and 9780226768533 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.