Sloth / Wendy Wasserstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasserstein, Wendy.

Series:

Seven deadly sins

The seven deadly sins

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laziness.

Physical Description:

xix, 114 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

With tongue in cheek, playwright Wendy Wasserstein presents a self-help manual to guide readers toward a life of noncommittal inertia. Readers will find the sloth songbook, sloth breakfast bars (with a delicious touch of Ambien), sloth documentaries (such as the author's 12-hour epic on Thomas Aquinas), and the sloth network, programming guaranteed not to stimulate or challenge in any way. Readers will also learn the top ten lies about Sloth, the ten commandments of Sloth, even the "too-much ten"-overachievers such as Marie Curie and Shakespeare.

Wasserstein was one of America's great comic writers-and one who always had a serious point to her humor. Here, as she pokes fun at the self-help industry, she also satirizes the growing legions of Americans who are quietly becoming cultural and political sloths.

Contents:

Part 1 Why Sloth Works 1

Chapter 1 The Sloth Plan 3

Chapter 2 A Personal History 13

Chapter 3 The Concise History of Sloth 23

Chapter 4 Sloth Will Change Your Life 33

Part 2 How to Do It 39

Chapter 5 Success with Sloth 41

Chapter 6 Welcome to Your Inner Sloth 49

Chapter 7 Phase One: Getting Started 57

Chapter 8 Phase Two: In the Swing 63

Chapter 9 Plateaus 69

Chapter 10 Maintaining Your Sloth 75

Chapter 11 Medical Breakthrough: Sloth Is the Way to Good Health! 85

Chapter 12 A Pause in the Proceeding 99

Chapter 13 Uberslothdom 103.

ISBN:

0195166302

OCLC:

54929662