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![]() | What Should I Do with My Life? (2003) The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question A non fiction book by Po Bronson |
In What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson manages to create a career book that is a page-turner. His 50 vivid profiles of people searching for "their soft spot--their true calling" will engage readers because Bronson is asking himself the same question. He explores his premise, that "nothing is braver than people facing up to their own identity," as an anthropologist and autobiographer. He tackles thorny, nuanced issues about self-determination. Among them: paradoxes of money and meaning, authorship and destiny, brain candy and novelty versus soul food. Bronson's stories, limited to professional people and complete with photos, are gems. They include a Los Angeles lawyer who became a priest, a Harvard MBA catfish farmer turned biotech executive, and a Silicon Valley real estate agent who opened a leather crafts factory in Costa Rica.
Bronson is a gifted intuitive writer, the bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift, whose thoughtful, vulnerable voice emerges as the book's greatest strength and challenge. He describes his subject's lives along with the ways they annoy, puzzle, and worry him. He frets about meddling with his questions, yet once, memorably and appropriately, he offers a talented man a top post in his publishing company. While this creates the juiciness of his portraits, it also can make Bronson the book's most memorable character and the only one whose story is not resolved. Even so, this remarkable career chronicle sets the gold standard for the worth of the examined life. --Barbara Mackoff
Bronson is a gifted intuitive writer, the bestselling author of The Nudist on the Late Shift, whose thoughtful, vulnerable voice emerges as the book's greatest strength and challenge. He describes his subject's lives along with the ways they annoy, puzzle, and worry him. He frets about meddling with his questions, yet once, memorably and appropriately, he offers a talented man a top post in his publishing company. While this creates the juiciness of his portraits, it also can make Bronson the book's most memorable character and the only one whose story is not resolved. Even so, this remarkable career chronicle sets the gold standard for the worth of the examined life. --Barbara Mackoff
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Hardback Editions
November 2003 : Hardback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life? (Thorndike Core) Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-7862-5809-8 / 978-0-7862-5809-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Thorndike Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2003 : Hardback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-375-50749-3 / 978-0-375-50749-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
December 2002 : Hardback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life? Author(s): PO BRONSON Publisher: Random House Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
November 2005 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-345-48592-0 / 978-0-345-48592-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2004 : Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do With My Life? Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-09-943799-6 / 978-0-09-943799-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2004 : Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life? Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-09-946854-9 / 978-0-09-946854-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
December 2003 : Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-375-75898-4 / 978-0-375-75898-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Trade Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
February 2003 : Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do With My Life? Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-436-20590-4 / 978-0-436-20590-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Secker Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2002 : Paperback
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2002 : Paperback
| Title: What Should I Do With My Life Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-9657526-5-8 / 978-0-9657526-5-7 (USA edition) Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE TRADE @ Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
January 2003 : Audio CD
| Title: What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-7435-2925-1 / 978-0-7435-2925-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2003 : Audio Cassette
| Title: What Should I Do With My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Author(s): Po Bronson ISBN: 0-7435-2924-3 / 978-0-7435-2924-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
2003 : Unknown
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December 2002 : Kindle edition
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January 2002 : Unknown
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