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Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations

Hardback | English

By (author): David Flusfeder

A fascinating, enchanting and painfully personal look at the meaning of luck, and the way in which it has shaped our shared history and continues to inflect our day to day lives.

What does it mean to be lucky? How might we mitigate the effects of bad luck and maximise those of good? Is there actually such a thing as ''luck''-some force that intervenes between desire and its consummation, that impedes or hastens it?

To answer these questions, David Flusfeder sets out on a search for the definition of luck. This quest will take him to Siberia, Versailles, the Old Testament desert; play roulette in Baden-Baden with Dostoevsky; visit a Cambridge fairground with Wittgenstein; meet the sixteenth-century poet Thomas Bastard, who challenged Fortune, and lost; find Nietzsche on the slopes of Vesuvius; learn about the pioneers of probability; the twentieth-century art investigators of chance and possibility; and the intensely personal story of his father''s good fortune in escaping war-time Poland. Starting at the British Library in London, and following the dictates of an online randomiser that decided the chapter order, Flusfeder follows in the footsteps of some victors of luck and those who were defeated by it, from ancient times to the modern day.

Luck asks fundamental questions about the world, ourselves, our place in it. In these questions, about our relationships to fortune, to risk, to opportunity, to chance, destiny and fate, we find ourselves deciding who we are and how we might choose to live.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 31 Mar 2022

Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 420g
  • Dimensions: 141 x 222mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Mar 2022
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008245177

About David Flusfeder

David Flusfeder has published seven novels including The Gift and most recently John the Pupil. His opera Army of Lovers written in collaboration with the composer Mark Springer received its UK premiere in November 2019. He has been a television critic for The Times and a poker columnist for the Sunday Telegraph.

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