The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living

✍ Scribed by Brunner, Bernd

• Book ID: 107808570
• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781612193106

✦ Synopsis

"A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language."
--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

An utterly charming study of the history of lying down--which is more complicated than you might think

We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner's ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the "slow living movement" to Stone Age repose--when people did not sleep lying down--and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail.

Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view--the other side to our...