Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays Kyle S. Reynolds the boy's refrigerator carton becomes

the boy's refrigerator carton becomes a commodious two-room hovel

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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays Kyle S. Reynolds the boy's refrigerator carton becomes"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the "hungry soul." Lopate's special gift is his ability