The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (SIGNED) #foliosociety the family and their defenders

the family and their defenders have managed to keep this shameful story out of the spotlight

Swift PressISBN: 9781800752771Extent: 544 pages

OrionISBN: 9781399614931

returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic that follows one family as they reckon with ambition and moderation

and enemies lurking around every corner

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (SIGNED) #foliosociety the family and their defendersSIGNED EDITION When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of some of its most compelling artists, illuminating loneliness in a whole new light. The Lonely City is a celebration of that strange and lovely state, intrinsic to the very act of being alive. Hailed as 'a new