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  1. The art of the wasted day
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Viking, New York

    "A meditation on the value of daydreaming and ease, and the primacy of the imagination, by one of our finest prose stylists Modern life only seems to become increasingly hectic and stressful, as we try to cram more and more into each day. In her new... more

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    "A meditation on the value of daydreaming and ease, and the primacy of the imagination, by one of our finest prose stylists Modern life only seems to become increasingly hectic and stressful, as we try to cram more and more into each day. In her new book, acclaimed author Patricia Hampl argues for the necessity of daydreaming and leisure in our over-amped lives. Written out of a lifelong fascination with contemplation, solitude, and silence, The Art of the Wasted Day takes the form of a narrative travelogue. Hampl brings the reader on a journey around the world as she visits the homes of several exemplars of leisure from the past, who made repose and seclusion their goal, indeed their art form. She braids her own life stories into these pilgrimages: lazing her days away as a young girl, daydreaming under a beechnut tree; undertaking a retreat at a Benedictine monastery; floating down the Mississippi River in an old cabin cruiser boat, a "sheer, dreamy waste of time" that was the greatest travel experience of her life. Hampl's book is also about someone who wanted to live "the life of the mind," the idea of one's thoughts being a life"...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780525429647
    Subjects: Autobiographies / lcgft; Travel writing / lcgft; Poets, American; Fantasy; Leisure
    Other subjects: Hampl, Patricia (1946-)
    Scope: 271 Seiten
  2. Sleeping by the Mississippi
    Contributor: Soth, Alec; Hampl, Patricia; Tucker, Anne
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  MACK, [London]

    Location:
    Hochschule München, Bibliothek
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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Soth, Alec; Hampl, Patricia; Tucker, Anne
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781910164891
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Mississippi <Fluss, Motiv>; Fotografie
    Other subjects: Soth, Alec (1969-); Soth, Alec / 1969-; Photography, Artistic / 21st century; Mississippi River Valley / Social life and customs / Pictorial works
    Scope: 120 ungezählte Seiten, 28 cm
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    Originally published: Steidl, 2004
  3. The Houghton Mifflin anthology of short fiction
    Patricia Hampl
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 1989
    Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin, Boston [u.a.]

    Location:
    Bibliothek der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg
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    U 4ca/128
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    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0395500486; 0395496950
    RVK Categories: HR 2450
    Scope: XLVIII, 1287 S.
  4. Tell me true
    memoir, history, and writing a life
    Contributor: Hampl, Patricia (Hrsg.)
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Borealis Books, St. Louis, Minn.

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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    2008 A 16114
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    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
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    59/15688
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    Contributor: Hampl, Patricia (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0873516303; 9780873516303
    Other identifier:
    9780873516303
    RVK Categories: HU 1831
    Subjects: Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; History in literature; Truth in literature; Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; History in literature; Truth in literature
    Scope: 231 S.
    Notes:

    Patricia Hampl & Elaine Tyler May: Introduction

    Fenton Johnson: The lion and the lamb, or the facts and the truth : memoir as bridge

    Annette Kobak: Whose war?

    Helen Epstein: Coming to memoir as a journalist

    June Cross: All in the family

    Michael Patrick MacDonald: It's all in the past

    Elaine Tyler May: Confessions of a memoir thief

    Alice Kaplan: Lady of the lake

    Matt Becker: The we in the me : memoir as community

    Patricia Hampl: You're history

    Cheri Register: Memoir matters

    Carlos Eire: Where falsehoods dissolve : memory as history

    Samuel G. Freedman: Making memory

    André Aciman: Rue delta

    D. J. Waldie: Public policy/private lives
  5. Sleeping by the Mississippi
    Contributor: Soth, Alec; Hampl, Patricia; Tucker, Anne
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  MACK, [London]

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Soth, Alec; Hampl, Patricia; Tucker, Anne
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781910164891
    RVK Categories: AP 94100 ; AP 95540
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Mississippi <Fluss, Motiv>; Fotografie
    Other subjects: Soth, Alec (1969-); Soth, Alec / 1969-; Photography, Artistic / 21st century; Mississippi River Valley / Social life and customs / Pictorial works
    Scope: 120 ungezählte Seiten, 28 cm
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    Originally published: Steidl, 2004
  6. Woman before an aquarium
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Univ. of Pittsburgh Pr., Pittsburgh, Pa.

    Location:
    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    ame 959:h230:c/t78
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0822933780; 0822952947
    Series: Pitt poetry series
    Scope: 91 S.
  7. I could tell you stories
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Norton, New York, N. Y. [u.a.]

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft
    Signature:
    LIT-AM 60.99 Hampl 1
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0393047385
    Scope: 229 S.
  8. Resort and other poems
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  Mifflin, Boston

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0395344034; 039534932X
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Scope: 79 S.
  9. I could tell you stories
    [sojourns in the land of memory]
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Norton, New York [u.a.]

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0393047385
    Subjects: Autobiographical memory; Autobiography; Biography as a literary form
    Other subjects: Hampl, Patricia <1946->
    Scope: 229 S., Ill.
  10. I could tell you stories
    sojourns in the land of memory
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Norton, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0393320316; 9780393320312
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Edition: 1. publ. as a Norton paperback
    Scope: 229 S., Ill.
  11. Blue Arabesque
    A Search for the Sublime
    Author: Hampl, Patricia
    Published: 2007; ©2006
    Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers, Boston

    Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Cell -- Window -- Divan -- Camera Obscura -- Les Bains Turcs -- Balcony -- Chapel -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- About the Author. more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Title Page -- Contents -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Cell -- Window -- Divan -- Camera Obscura -- Les Bains Turcs -- Balcony -- Chapel -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- About the Author.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780547350837
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (79 pages)
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