FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

  • Ready to gift SANTA SAFE
    Daily Rituals

Daily Rituals

Mason Currey

    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback

      R 351.00 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 351 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 15 - 20 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 58.50 per month!
      6x monthly payments of R 58.50 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 87.75 with
      'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work.Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Mason Currey EAN: 9781529059960 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 220 g HEIGHT: 196 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General WIDTH: 130 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Creative writing and creative writing guides, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: writers, Collected biographies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Trivia and quiz questions, Gift books

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Mason Currey was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey’s writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in New York.

      Book Partnerships

      For the Fans

      'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work.Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Mason Currey EAN: 9781529059960 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 220 g HEIGHT: 196 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General WIDTH: 130 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Creative writing and creative writing guides, Biography: arts and entertainment, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: writers, Collected biographies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Trivia and quiz questions, Gift books

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Mason Currey was born in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Currey’s writing has appeared in Slate, Metropolis, and Print. He lives in New York.

      Book Partnerships

      For the Fans

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account