The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Couverture souple

Keegan, Marina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147113962X ISBN 13 : 9781471139628

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2015

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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'Brilliant: intense, defiant and full of glorious raw compassion'
Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.
Her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. Marina had struck a chord.
The Opposite of Loneliness captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation and articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
'It's moving to watch this young woman speaking about everything being 'so beautiful and short', knowing what happened to her... Her voice is so fresh, her enthusiasm so appealing, her ambition so great that you cannot help but wonder what she might have achieved'
Financial Times
'Keegan was one of the most present, incisive and hopeful writers... How incredible, how lucky, that we get to read her words'
Buzzfeed
'Imbued with unusual insight, nuance, humour and sensitivity'
The New Yorker

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.
As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.
Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 147113962X
• ISBN 13: 9781471139628
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256