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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily.  · How to break free of that prison and reinhabit the space of trust and love is what Olivia Laing explores in The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (public library) — an extraordinary more-than-memoir; a sort of memoir-plus-plus, partway between Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk and the diary of Virginia Woolf; a lyrical account of wading through a period of self . The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing. by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating.

The Lonely City - Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Olivia, Laing. Primary Category: Olivia Laing, a British novelist and writer on cultural and social issues, tackles the phenomenon of loneliness as a pervasive condition that is both a symptom and a cause of malaise, dysphoria and depression. are that lonely people are more. The Lonely City. Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. Olivia Laing. " Loneliness, I began to realise, was a populated place: a city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost ". Available as Paperback, eBook. A dazzling investigation into loneliness. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. The Lonely City.: Olivia Laing. Macmillan, - Art - pages. 11 Reviews. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings. Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly.

The Lonely City is a book about art as redemptive force, both because it saves us from feeling alone and also tackles the concept of loneliness in a way that most of us refuse to do in the course of our ordinary conversations. Laing opens up the work by admitting her feelings of shame about being lonely: "Loneliness is difficult to confess, difficult too to categorize it is subject too to pathologization, to being considered a disease.". The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing. to Echo Spring. When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her midthirties, she found. THE LONELY CITY Adventures in the Art of Being Alone By Olivia Laing Illustrated. pp. Picador. $ The Book of Common Prayer offers an intercession for “our families, friends and neighbors.