On Purpose
By Nick Laird
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393067767, 65pp.)
Publication Date: October 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Description
On Purpose examines the often brutal arena of human relations. Informed by both wit and a melancholic undercurrent, the book thoughtfully provokes concepts of happiness and sadness, of warring and reparation. The volume concludes with an affecting sequence about a marriage, inspired by that most influential of military treatises, The Art of War.
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