Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone
Canongate $34.99 hb, 336 pp, 9781782111238
Memoir
Lonely City: Adventures in the art of being alone by Olivia Laing
by Alexandra Mathew •
In her mid-thirties, British writer and critic Olivia Laing moved to New York City to live with her partner. When the relationship ended, Laing found herself alone amidst the bustle of New York: 'loneliness, I began to realize, was a populated place: a city in itself'.
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