Product Description
Alone: On Different Ways of Living
Author: Daniel Schreiber
Format: Paperback
At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own?
‘A book to love and cherish’ — Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living
‘A beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker’ — Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life
‘Friendship is, in fact, as much the topic of this book as aloneness’ — Sarah Bakewell, Guardian
‘A heartfelt memoir on being single, living alone and the existential experience of loneliness’ — Financial Times
‘Romantic love, suggests the author, is the lone “grand narrative” to have survived seismic societal shifts in modern times . . . Hermits and intimacy, the taboo of loneliness and the consolation of friendship – all find their place in a meditation that nods to joy and adversity’ — Observer
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