Migrations to Solitude - Couverture rigide

Halpern, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679407774 ISBN 13 : 9780679407775

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1992

Synopsis

An exploration of privacy makes a statement on the human sense of being alone in the world by examining how Americans sometimes choose to sacrifice their privacy and sometimes choose to bask in it. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are our laws, technology, and lifestyles increasingly chipping it away?

These are somong the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these profoundly original essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is the first—and perhaps the most essential—thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only ot the routes to solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sue Halpern received her doctorate from Oxford University in 1985 and first began teaching at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of Four Wings and a Prayer, Migrations to Solitude, and two books of fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Condé Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Ripton, Vermont, with her husband, writer Bill McKibben, and their daughter, Sophie, and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679407774
• ISBN 13: 9780679407775
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible