The Real Work

How to rate The Real Work? What classification do I give it? Who is the target audience for this book? Besides people who love Gopnik like me, I mean?

Gopnik explores the idea of mastering a task. He tries to learn how to do several types of work. All of the types of work take many years of practice before mastery is achieved. Gopnik works with a baker, an artist, a dancer, a boxer, and a driving instructor.

As always, Gopnik writes about his experiences masterfully (if you will), combining a picture of the actual work encounters with Gopnik's brilliant philosophical musings about the experiences.