Hardcover
Published: 14th April 2015
ISBN: 9781408706787
Number Of Pages: 80
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling’s words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?
Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world-famous author addresses some of life’s most important issues with acuity and emotional force.
Sales of Very Good Lives will benefit Lumos, a charity organisation founded by J.K. Rowling, which works to transform the lives of disadvantaged children, and university-wide financial aid at Harvard University.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said, "I have heard and read many commencement speeches, none more moving and memorable than J.K. Rowling's. Years after her visit to Harvard, people still talk about it and still find inspiration in her singular evocation of the idea that living a meaningful life so often means daring to risk failure. What a powerful example she embodies, and what a remarkable gift her speech was, and is, for all of us privileged to hear it then and to read it now."
There are some days where you feel like you may be failing, where you are making bad decisions and you just don't know if you are heading down the right path. JK is here to tell you that you should embrace failing, take it in your stride and always remember that failure can lead to success. Taking the good from that bad. Her words take you to another place, and suddenly you feel a little better about life.
Kiki
Brisbane, QLD
100.0
ISBN: 9781408706787
ISBN-10: 1408706784
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 80
Published: 14th April 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.6
x 1.2
Weight (kg): 0.16
Edition Number: 1
