# The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer (Paperback)

**REDISCOVER THE FORGOTTEN ART OF ASKING IN THIS _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLING BOOK**  
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'Amanda Palmer joyfully shows a generation how to change their lives' _Caitlin Moran_**  
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'To read Amanda Palmer's remarkable memoir about asking and giving is to tumble headlong into her world' _Elizabeth Gilbert_**  
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'The Art of Asking_ is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably close. Dangerously close. Beautifully close' _Brene Brown_**  
  
Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, and finding a place to sleep each night by reaching out to strangers on Twitter. For Amanda Palmer, actions like these have gone beyond satisfying her basic needs for food and shelter - they've taught her how to turn strangers into friends, build communities, and discover her own giving impulses. And because she had learned how to ask, she was able to go to the world to ask for the money to make a new album and tour with it, and to raise over a million dollars in a month.  
  
In the _New York TImes_ bestseller _The Art of Asking_, Palmer expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use these same principles in our own lives.

## Details

- **Price:** 15.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Piatkus
- **Type:** Biographies & Memoirs
- **Tags:** All Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Self Help

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