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Publisher: Canongate

Author: Olivia Laing

ISBN: 9781782111252

Year: 2017

Format: Paperback

Nonfiction, Memoir

The Lonely City by
Olivia Laing

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$ 300.00 mxn

The Lonely City by

Olivia Laing

Reviews

"Luminously wise and deeply compassionate … A fierce and essential work"

Helen Macdonald

Summary

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city’s most compelling artists, 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.

Chosen as ‘BOOK OF THE YEAR’ by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald

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