Olivia Laing

The Lonely City

Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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Produktbeschreibung

A luminous text that has become a cornerstone of contemporary hybrid non-fiction and has established Olivia Laing's rightful place alongside its most essential writers

Produktdetails

• Canongate Canons
• Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781838852726
• ISBN-10: 1838852727
• Artikelnr.: 75311403

Autorenporträt

Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of eight books, including Funny Weather, Everybody and the Sunday Times number one bestseller The Garden Against Time. Laing's first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and in 2018 they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. They're an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and their books have been translated into twenty-one languages. Their latest novel is The Silver Book. @olivialanguage olivialaing.com

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