

Shrinking Violets
The Secret Life of Shyness
Author: Joe Moran
Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 02/21/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Social History, Psychology, Personality
Synopsis
With incisiveness, passion, and humor, Joe Moran offers an eclectic and original exploration of what it means to be a "shrinking violet." Along the way, he provides a collective biography of shyness through portraits of such shy individuals as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Garrison Keillor, and Agatha Christie, among many others. In their stories often both heartbreaking and inspiring and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and "cure" shyness, Moran finds hope. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden; it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring.