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On Looking

Alexandra Horowitz

2013308 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2013
first published
  • 2013Simon & Schuster, Limited · ENGISBN 9781439191279
  • 2013Simon & Schuster, Limited · ENGISBN 9781471126222
  • 2013Scribner · 308 pages · ENGISBN 9781439191255
  • 2013Simon & Schuster, Limited · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781471126208
  • 2014Scribner · 320 pagesISBN 9781439191262
  • 2013Simon & Schuster AudioISBN 9781442359321
  • 2013Simon Schuster Books for Young ReadersISBN 9781476727790

On Looking begins with inattention. It is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived 'ordinary.' Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities like taking a walk around the block, we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives.

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