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THERE seems little point in raging publicly at the ills of modern life unless you can suggest a cure. 鈥榮 book is an amusing gambol through science, religion, philosophy and literature in search of strategies for fulfilment in a contemporary culture that seems designed to resist them.

His distaste for the way other people behave makes the crumbs of comfort he offers up hard to swallow. Foley takes issue with almost everything the 21st century has thrown at him, from the cheeriness of once famously grumpy Parisian waiters to the audacity of his online book store in recommending books to him.

He writes so well and covers so much ground that you can forgive some of his crabbiness. But some solutions, such as a Buddhist approach to life, are hardly revelatory, while others 鈥� the writings of Nietzsche, jazz solos 鈥� are clearly not to everyone鈥檚 taste. As a recipe for helping us 鈥渇ace the world re-nourished鈥�, the whole enterprise looks a little absurd.