The art of conversation a guided tour of a neglected pleasure
A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise in its ways.
| Main Author: | Blyth, Catherine. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Gotham Books,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: We need to talk (or for the busy reader, the concise manifesto)
- Hello : on conversation's casting couch
- Small talk, big deal? : on striking up a tune
- Pay heed : on the acrobatics of attention
- The rest is silence : on not speaking
- Fit subjects : on topics in search of good homes
- Into the groove : on steering controls
- Do go on : on wrangling boredom
- Wit to woo : on humor as social engineering
- How to tell a lie : on the detection of untruths
- Pillow talk : on the languages of love
- The fine art of flattery : on love in measured doses
- Shop talk : on conversation as work
- Choppy waters : on navigating difficult conversation
- Shut-up shop : on how to wage a word war
- Are you receiving me? : on stitching conversation into your life.