The Art of Conversation – Catherine Blyth

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Summary

• Read Catherine Blyth's posts on the Penguin Blog.

• A wide-ranging, exhortatory look at the pleasures of great conversation, including strategies for how to bring it about, from the witty pen of an Englishwoman wise in its ways

• In The Art of Conversation, Catherine Blyth eloquently points out the sorry state of disrepair that conversation has fallen into—and then, taking examples from history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and popular culture, she gives us the tools to rebuild.

• Her prose embodies the conversational values she promotes: It’s smart, succinct, self-deprecating, and light on its feet.

• The Art of Conversation isn’t about etiquette, elocution, or knowing how to hold your teacup with your little finger crooked just so.