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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. "Olivia Laing, in her new book, The Lonely City, picks up the topic of painful urban isolation and sets it down in many smart and oddly consoling places. She makes the topic her own... Perhaps the best praise I can give this book is to concur with Ms Laing’s dedication: 'If you’re lonely, this one’s for you.' " - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesFascinated 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. "Laing... is an observer, and that passivity lends the book a staggering emotional weight that's both powerful and leaden. It's a grey, overcast afternoo

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Author

Olivia Laing, Olivia Laing

Publisher

Canongate Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782111252

Category

art

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Psychology