Olivia Laing

The Lonely City (eBook, ePUB)

Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782111245
• Artikelnr.: 44865627

Autorenporträt

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. The Lonely City has been shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
1 The Lonely City 3
2 Walls of Glass 11
3 My Heart Opens to Your Voice 47
4 In Loving Him 95
5 The Realms of the Unreal 135
6 At the Beginning of the End of the World 179
7 Render Ghosts 217
8 Strange Fruit 255
Notes 285
Bibliography 299
Acknowledgements 311
List of Illustrations 315

Rezensionen

Triumphant . . . A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art Telegraph