What does it mean to be alone? How do we live if we are not intimately committed to another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology bring us closer, or does it isolate us behind the screens? When Olivia Laing moved to New York, at thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this "shameful" experience, she began to explore the lonely city through art. Moving smoothly between the works and the lives of some of the city's most attractive artists (Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz), Laing offers a dazzling electrical investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness, but also how he can resist and redeem himself.
Human, provocative and moving, this book tells us about the spaces between people and the things that unite them, about sexuality, mortality ...read more
