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      Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor

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      From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

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      Product ID:9781472280879
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Greenlights
      Subtitle:Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor
      Authors:Author: Matthew McConaughey
      Page Count:304
      Subjects:Individual actors and performers, Individual actors & performers, Films, cinema, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Films, cinema, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

      THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - MILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

      Gloriously bonkers - Guardian, Best Autobiographies and Memoirs of 2020


      A rollicking, contemplative trip - Financial Times


      From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

      I''ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

      Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life''s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call ''catching greenlights.''

      So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.

      Hopefully, it''s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot''s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.

      It''s a love letter. To life.

      It''s also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

      Good luck.


      Imprint Name:Headline Book Publishing
      Publisher Name:Headline Publishing Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2023-07-06

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      Weight328 g
      Dimensions129 × 197 × 26 mm