{"product_id":"the-lonely-city-adventures-in-the-art-of-being-alone","title":"The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist 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  A dazzling work of biography  memoir  and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness  told through the lives of iconic artists  by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring.  When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties  she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences  she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hoppers Nighthawks to Andy Warhols Time Capsules  from Henry Dargers hoarding to David Wojnarowiczs AIDS activism  Laing conducts an electric  dazzling 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945307598901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250039576","price":42.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250039576.jpg?v=1769882333","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lonely-city-adventures-in-the-art-of-being-alone","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}