We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.
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About Nigel Hamilton
Nigel Hamilton was a contemporary British writer and broadcaster. Nigel Hamilton is a British-born biographer, academic, and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. In the United States, he is known primarily for his best-selling work on the young John F. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour