E-raamat: Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Triumphant . . . A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art * * Telegraph * * Luminously wise and deeply compassionate . . . A fierce and essential work -- HELEN MACDONALD, author of H IS FOR HAWK Wonderfully freewheeling . . . Constantly surprising . . . Inspired * * Guardian * * The Lonely City is a stunning homage to how extreme loneliness can make us more hospitable to the strangeness of others - to the risks and innovations of art and artists. Laing has written a classic that will be cherished for years to come -- DEBORAH LEVY, author of SWIMMING HOME A new kind of literature . . . Endlessly, compulsively fascinating * * New Statesman * * Unusually brave . . . Sublime * * The Times * * Laing cuts close to the bone of a universal yet often unrelatable state * * Financial Times * * A gifted critic and biographer . . . a fascinating, eerie piece of writing * * Sunday Times * * One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction . . . Compelling and original * * Harpers Bazaar * * Exhilarating . . . beautifully integrated, original, compassionate * * Independent * *