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THIS may be a book’s best ever summary of itself: “when fishing for happiness, catch and release”.
With a title that inverts one of the inalienable rights established by the American Declaration of Independence, The Happiness of Pursuit is for fans of enquiries into the nature of brain, mind – and happiness itself.
When the author Shimon Edelman was 8, he came upon Christopher Logue’s poem Epitaph, which asks: “What is the greatest happiness on earth?” The…
