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Informationen zum Autor Adam Phillips was born in Cardiff in 1954. He is the author of numerous works of psychotherapy and literary criticism, including Winnicott , On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored , Going Sane , Side Effects , On Kindness , co-written with Barbara Taylor, On Balance , Missing Out, One Way and Another and Becoming Freud . Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books , the Observer and the New York Times , and he is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations. His most recent book is Unforbidden Pleasures . Klappentext This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man always in flight from women; and Emily Dickinson who spends her life in solitary confinement. 'Though Phillips' territory is complication, he reports back in the simplest of words. He is perhaps single-handedly continuing the tradition of the world's best essayists! Observer; 'A rare achievement - as remarkable a piece of work as Houdini ever performed himself; Daily Telegraph Vorwort Houdini's Box , by Adam Phillips, is a spectacular examination of mankind's on-going fascination with ideas of escape. ' A rare achievement - as remarkable a piece of work as Houdini ever performed himself.' ( Daily Telegraph ) Zusammenfassung This text explores the lives of four different escape artists: a little girl playing her own wayward version of hide and seek; Harry Houdini who electrifies the world through a series of escapes; a man always in flight from women; and Emily Dickinson who spends her life in solitary confinement....
