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The Lonely City by Olivia Laing, Olivia Laing is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lonely City about?
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives - 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 deeply moving, *The Lonely City* is about the spaces between people and the things that draw them together, about sexuality, mortality and the magical possibilities of art. It's 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.words : 82527
Who reads The Lonely City?
It is typically read by collectors seeking rare, out-of-print or specialist editions.
Common subject areas: rare and out-of-print works.
- Author
- Olivia Laing, Olivia Laing
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782111238
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (217 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (2016)
- The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (2018)
- المدينة الوحيدة: مغامرات في فن البقاء وحيدًا [Arabic] (2016)
- The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (2017)
- Olivia Laing Collection 2 Books Set (The Lonely City, To the River) (2016)
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