Olivia Laing

The Lonely City

Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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Produktbeschreibung

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, and Lit Hub The 10th anniversary edition of the beloved and dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness as told through the lives of iconic artists-"a beautiful meander of a book" (The New Yorker ). When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in their mid-thirties, they found themself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, they began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving 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 electrifying investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed. Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781250460943
• ISBN-10: 1250460948
• Artikelnr.: 76291781

Autorenporträt

Olivia Laing is an internationally acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of eight books, including The Lonely City, 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 nonfiction. Their books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

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