Lonely City - Couverture souple

Laing, Olivia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250118034 ISBN 13 : 9781250118035

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, Everybody, and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing's first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2018 they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Their books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250118034
• ISBN 13: 9781250118035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible