Reviews
"Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness ofcompulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has beenchallenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit fromreading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your OwnDeepest Experience, "What midsummer night's feast would be digestible without Francine Prose's Gluttony; what weekend jaunt to your best friend's chateau would be survivable without Joseph Epstein's Envy? And you'll need Wendy Wasserstein's Sloth (wickedly subtitled 'And How to Get It') while you're struggling out of your deck chair."--O, The Oprah Magazine (on the series) "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series) "From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions "Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience "This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun at Midnight, "From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--SusanSalter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, "What midsummer night's feast would be digestible without Francine Prose's Gluttony; what weekend jaunt to your best friend's chateau would be survivable without Joseph Epstein's Envy? And you'll need Wendy Wasserstein's Sloth (wickedly subtitled 'And How to Get It') while you're struggling out of your deck chair."--O, The Oprah Magazine (on the series)"Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series)"From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review"Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions"Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience"This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun at Midnight, "Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide tograppling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offersheart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure themaddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author of DestructiveEmotions, "From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, "Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author ofDestructive Emotions, "Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting YourOwn Deepest Experience, "This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun atMidnight, "What midsummer night's feast would be digestible without Francine Prose's Gluttony; what weekend jaunt to your best friend's chateau would be survivable without Joseph Epstein's Envy? And you'll need Wendy Wasserstein's Sloth (wickedly subtitled 'And How to Get It') while you're struggling out of your deck chair."--O, The Oprah Magazine (on the series)"Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series)"From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review"Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions"Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience"This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun at Midnight"Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series)"Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. In Anger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author of Destructive Emotions"From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Book Review"Anger is a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience"This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun at Midnight, "What midsummer night's feast would be digestible without Francine Prose's Gluttony; what weekend jaunt to your best friend's chateau would be survivable without Joseph Epstein's Envy? And you'll need Wendy Wasserstein's Sloth (wickedly subtitled 'And How to Get It') while you're struggling out of your deck chair."--O, The Oprah Magazine (on the series) "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series) "Diverting, high-toned amusement."--Publishers Weekly "Epstein wields a nimble pen in this consideration of the 'most pervasive' mortal sin.... Though experiencing envy may be 'no fun at all,' under Epstein's guidance, this sin is pretty entertaining to contemplate in all its fine permutations.... Strangely comforting in its reassurance that the reader is not alone in being a petty SOB."--Kirkus Reviews "Joseph Epstein has earned his reputation as one of our most respected men of letters through his mastery of the essay.... With Envy, we are back in familiar Epstein territory.... Delightful...entertaining and provocative."--Chicago Sun-Times "Eternally fascinating to saint, sinner and everyone occupying the vast expanse between those two poles...penetrating and perspicacious.... Epstein's tone is as attractive as his judgment and analysis are sound."--San Francisco Chronicle "Will win new readers for one of the most entertaining of contemporary writers.... Epstein cites an impressive range of authorities, from Aristotle to Gore Vidal ('Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies,' Vidal once wrote). Yet the real vim of the book comes from Esptein's honest search for envy close to home."--National Post "A stimulating tour of the killjoy sin of envy."--Books and Culture "Epstein explores this vice with candor and clarity...Though this book is compact and can easily be read in one sitting, it feels exhaustive. It delves into tortuous malebolge--resentment, schadenfreude, envy of youth, anti-Semitism, Marxism and so on--and examines how they are rooted in or fueled by envy.... The book's virtue lies less in explaining the vice than in warning of its danger. The reader who expects a smug, winking skepticism will be disappointed. Yes, Epstein has fun. (Each chapter comes with a New Yorker cartoon, but these wither in the heat of the author's wit. ) He is, nonetheless, deadly serious about a sin that 'tends to diminish all in whom it takes possession.' Epstein's writing is a rare alloy of sobriety, sophistication, and warm humor that--quite contrary to the spirit of his book--I wish I possessed."--National Review "Epstein is a witty and thoughtful elucidator of this covert and poisonous state of mind."--Booklist "Eptein deftly untangles jeolousy from envy, Othello from Iago, and Nietzsche from Schopenhauer while decoding an impressive universe of things enviable and revisiting the seeds of resentment that gave rise to anti-Semitism."--Elle, "This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the mostformidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a smallmasterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highlyenough." --Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Sun atMidnight, "What midsummer night's feast would be digestible without Francine Prose'sGluttony; what weekend jaunt to your best friend's chateau would be survivable without Joseph Epstein'sEnvy? And you'll need Wendy Wasserstein'sSloth(wickedly subtitled 'And How to Get It') while you're struggling out of your deck chair."--O, The Oprah Magazine(on the series) "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly(on the series) "From little books come great hopes for the future of mankind!"--Susan Salter Reynolds,The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Anyone can benefit from Robert Thurman's masterful and engaging guide to grappling with that deadly emotion, anger. InAnger, Thurman brilliantly offers heart advice from ancient inner sciences that can help us all as we endure the maddening grind of modern life." --Daniel Goleman, author ofDestructive Emotions "Angeris a brilliant elucidation of how to transform the blindness of compulsive anger into sustained energy for change. Anyone who has been challenged by resentment, disappointment, impatience or rage would benefit from reading this book." --Sharon Salzberg, author ofFaith: Trusting Your OwnDeepest Experience "This brilliant, passionate, supple and profound book is the most formidable exploration and analysis of anger that I have ever read, and a small masterpiece of psychological and spiritual truth. I cannot recommend it highly enough." --Andrew Harvey, author ofThe Direct PathandThe Sun atMidnight, "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony byFrancine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed byPhyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dysonbecome playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights inOxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series), "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrightsin Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series)
