Name: The Lonely City: Adventures in the art of Being Alone
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Author: Laing, Olivia
ISBN: 9781250118035

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The Lonely City: Adventures in the art of Being Alone

Type

Physical Book

Author

Olivia Laing

Publisher

Picador

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781250118035

Synopsis "The Lonely City: Adventures in the art of Being Alone "

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed. Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.

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