- Loneliness, Artists, Psychology, City and town life
"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass.
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Character
Character-led, prestige, grave and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Olivia Laing, Olivia Laing
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 315
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Inc., imusti, Canongate Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9781504738903
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