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From the author of the megaselling phenomenon QUIET, the no. 1 NYT bestseller on how to turn sorrow into beauty - and even joy Whether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dream of meeting; whether you hunger for the happy childhood you'll never have, or for the divine; whether you yearn for a lost person, an unborn child, the fountain of youth, or unconditional love- These are all manifestations of the same great ache... In this inspiring masterpiece, Susan Cain - author of the international bestseller Quiet - shows us the power of a ""bittersweet"" outlook- the dramatically overlooked tendency to states of longing and poignancy, and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. Embracing the bittersweet means understanding that light and dark, birth and death - bitter and sweet - are forever paired, and that only by recognising this can we be fully whole. Bringing to light the ideas of artists, writers and thinkers from all over the world, and her own quest for answers over the course of a lifetime, Susan Cain shifts our understanding of the world by teaching us how to transform pain and sorrow into creativity and love - and therefore how to turn our sadness into an enriching superpower.

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Author:   Susan Cain
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9780241300671

ISBN 10:   0241300673
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   15 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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A decade ago, I found myself inside Quiet. With Bittersweet, Susan Cain has described and validated my existence once again! Bittersweet reaffirmed that my constant, achy awareness of life's brutiful is a way of life shared across the ages with artists, healers and anyone who pays deep attention. I'll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 NYT bestseller Untamed Susan Cain's Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn't let go. I've thought about the depth and beauty in Susan's research and storytelling every day since I finished the book. I will always be grateful for how much Quiet and Bittersweet have helped me understand myself and how I engage with the world -- Brene Brown, author of the NYT bestseller Atlas of the Heart This is the rare book that doesn't just open your eyes - it touches your heart and sings to your soul. Susan Cain gave a voice to introverts, and now she masterfully paints our heaviest emotions in a light that's long overdue. Bittersweet is the perfect cure for toxic positivity and a sparkling ode to the beauty of the human condition -- Adam Grant, #1 NYT bestselling author of Think Again The stories are very moving . . . The bittersweet state can make us more compassionate and more artistic, [Cain] argues eloquently, and perhaps that's worth the price of the pain -- Laura Hackett * The Sunday Times * Cain weaves together a huge range of references from neuroscience, music, religion, history and business management with ease . . . her voice is sincere and clear as she tries to understand the value of the bittersweet . . . I was moved [and] fascinated . . . The world is beautiful and awful and this book helps us to accept that this has always been the case -- Marianne Power * The Times * Beautifully written . . . she's so clever and so wonderful -- Chris Evans I have found myself loving her book, underlining whole paragraphs, reading bits out to my friends . . . Cain manages to be both pragmatic as well as poetic in her book and takes the reader on a journey to help you figure out what truly makes a life worth living -- Suzy Walker * Metro.co.uk * Susan Cain does it again! As the author of the worldwide phenomenon Quiet she changed how the world sees introverts. Now she has written a book that will change how the world sees sorrow and longing. This book is an absolute triumph: it's for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost -- Greg McKeown, author of NYT bestsellers Effortless and Essentialism An amazing and profound book about some of the most important feelings in human life - ones that our culture averts its gaze from, but now, thanks to Susan Cain, we can think about, and experience, with extraordinary clarity. Every single person should read it -- Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus Nourishing and wise, Bittersweet fills a gap in our culture that many of us have felt keenly: the need for sadness, poignancy and yearning as part of the full spectrum of human emotion. Just like Quiet, I felt like an aspect of myself was honoured in these pages -- Katherine May, author of Wintering In Bittersweet, Susan Cain speaks to our souls, to our inner longing for connection and meaning. Her writing is a poignant and profound reminder that it is shadow that gives depth to our vision and transience that makes joy so sweet. Bittersweet is a homecoming for all of us who weep when our deepest sense of wonder is stirred -- Kathryn Mannix, author of Listen and With the End in Mind In a profound new book set to be as influential as Quiet, Cain - who is obsessed with Leonard Cohen's music - argues that recognising the value of the bittersweet - that is, learning to weather times of pain and loss - is powerful and vital * The Bookseller * Susan Cain finds what is undervalued, quiet, and precious. In Bittersweet she takes you to a room in your own heart full of treasures that you had forgotten about. This is a book to read, feel, and savour -- Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU and author of The Righteous Mind Bittersweet is astonishing -- one of the most gracefully written, palpably human books I've read in years. Its powerful case will reshape how you think about yourself and those you love. Its sheer beauty will linger in your heart long after you turn the final page -- Daniel H Pink, #1 NYT bestselling author of WHEN, DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND Bittersweet feels like a natural follow up to Cain's 2012 blockbuster Quiet and deserves just as many readers . . . a timely and welcome read for so many * Business Insider, 10 best books of April * An eye-opening take on the underestimated virtues of melancholy . . . this ambitious work impresses in its dexterous integration of disparate thought traditions into a cohesive, moving, and insightful whole. Like a more intuitive Malcolm Gladwell, Cain delivers a deeply felt study of the profound uses of sorrow and melancholy, a perfect manual for coping with tough times * Publishers Weekly * With a mix of research and memoir, Cain uncovers the value of sorrow as an essential component of creativity, empathy and wonder. Artistic, brooding types everywhere will feel seen by Cain's thoughtful analysis, and appreciated for their superpower of transforming pain into art and connection * BookPage * By the author of the 2012 phenom Quiet, this timely and timeless exploration of the melancholic direction of how the tragedy of life is linked inescapably with its splendor is both an antidote for our uncertain times and a toolbox for using angst and yearning as a means of transforming pain into creativity, transcendence, and love -- Oprah Daily: The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022 There are some beautifully crafted - and well-researched - passages on creativity, sorrow and longing, mortality and grief, and personal redemption . . . This is an intriguing book that takes a profoundly compassionate tilt at connections within the human condition -- Ian McFarlane * Canberra Times *

I'll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 NYT bestseller Untamed Susan Cain's Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn't let go -- Brené Brown, author of the NYT bestseller Atlas of the Heart This is the rare book that doesn't just open your eyes - it touches your heart and sings to your soul -- Adam Grant, #1 NYT bestselling author of Think Again This book is an absolute triumph: it's for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost -- Greg McKeown, author of NYT bestsellers Effortless and Essentialism An amazing and profound book . . . every single person should read it -- Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus

I'll place Bittersweet in the hands of all my feely, achy, beautiful friends -- Glennon Doyle, author of #1 NYT bestseller Untamed Susan Cain's Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and doesn't let go -- Brene Brown, author of the NYT bestseller Atlas of the Heart This is the rare book that doesn't just open your eyes - it touches your heart and sings to your soul -- Adam Grant, #1 NYT bestselling author of Think Again This book is an absolute triumph: it's for anyone who has ever really lived, loved, or lost -- Greg McKeown, author of NYT bestsellers Effortless and Essentialism An amazing and profound book . . . every single person should read it -- Johann Hari, bestselling author of Stolen Focus

Author Information

Susan Cain is the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Quiet- The Power of Introverts in A World That Can't Stop Talking. Her writing on introversion and shyness has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Oprah magazine and Psychology Today. Cain has spoken at Microsoft and Google, and has appeared on the BBC, CBS and NPR. Her work has been featured on the cover of Time, in the Daily Mail, the FT, the Atlantic, GQ, Grazia, the New Yorker, Wired, Fast Company, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, the Washington Post, CNN and Slate.com.

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