Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude
In a boldly honest and elegantly written memoir—the first on this topic—Emily White reveals the painful and sometimes debilitating experience of living with chronic loneliness. In the vein of popular favorites such as Girl, Interrupted and Manic, Lonely approaches loneliness in the way that...
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In a boldly honest and elegantly written memoir—the first on this topic—Emily White reveals the painful and sometimes debilitating experience of living with chronic loneliness. In the vein of popular favorites such as Girl, Interrupted and Manic, Lonely approaches loneliness in the way that Andrew Soloman’s The Noonday Demon approached depression, and lifts the veil on a mostly ignored population who often suffer their disorder in silence.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780061765100 (0061765104)
ASIN: 0061765104
Publish date: 2011-01-18
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #5: A book that starts with the same first letter as your nameThis book brought back so many memories of my time living alone -- I related a lot to the solitude White describes as she journals at her kitchen table, eats meals alone, forces herself to socialize ...