Download or read book To Walk Alone in the Crowd written by Antonio Muñoz Molina and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Medici Prize for Foreign Novel From the award-winning author of the Man Booker Prize finalist Like a Fading Shadow, Antonio Muñoz Molina presents a flâneur-novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan, and his mind. De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman . . . walkers and city dwellers all, collagists and chroniclers, picking the detritus of their eras off the filthy streets and assembling it into something new, shocking, and beautiful. In To Walk Alone in the Crowd, Antonio Muñoz Molina emulates these classic inspirations, following their peregrinations and telling their stories in a book that is part memoir, part novel, part chronicle of urban wandering. A skilled collagist himself, Muñoz Molina here assembles overheard conversations, subway ads, commercials blazing away on public screens, snatches from books hurriedly packed into bags or shoved under one’s arm, mundane anxieties, and the occasional true flash of insight—struggling to announce itself amid this barrage of data—into a poem of contemporary life: an invitation to let oneself be carried along by the sheer energy of the digital metropolis. A denunciation of the harsh noise of capitalism, of the conversion of everything into either merchandise or garbage (or both), To Walk Alone in the Crowd is also a celebration of the beauty and variety of our world, of the ecological and aesthetic gaze that can, even now, recycle waste into art, and provide an opportunity for rebirth.
Download or read book The Lonely City written by Olivia Laing and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. This roving cultural history of urban loneliness centers on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. How do we connect with other people, particularly if our sexuality or physical body is considered deviant or damaged? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? Laing travels deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists in a celebration of the state of loneliness.
Download or read book Alone in a Crowd written by Andrea Parmar and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always seemingly happy and talkative, the author shares the darkest secrets of her sixteen-year battle with an eating disorder. Hiding her insecurities “behind the mask” of a seemingly perfect life, Andrea struggles to be present in the moment even when surrounded by family and friends. Every moment, of each day, her thoughts and energy are consumed by body image concerns, distorted thoughts around food, and other mental health issues. Andrea often finds herself feeling “Alone in a Crowd” despite her professional knowledge and caring family. Her husband also shares his unique "partner's perspective", describing the stressors of being in a relationship consumed by a disordered-eating addiction. He candidly describes his frustrations, and feelings of powerlessness and betrayal, in their fight against food. Eventually, they both realize that a shift in mindset would be necessary for their marriage to survive. With the help of professional counselling services and personal reflection, Andrea is able to gain control over her self-harming ways. Despite overcoming this deadly addiction she soon discovers that “Life” doesn't stand up to applaud her accomplishment, but instead throws more hurdles her way including her recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.
Download or read book The Lonely Crowd written by David Riesman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alone written by Chaboute and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a tiny lighthouse island far from the rest of the world, a hermit lives out his existence. Every week a supply boat leaves provisions, yet the fishermen never leave their boat, and never meet him. Years spent on this deserted rock, with imagination his sole companion, has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely. For him, what lies beyond the horizon might be... nothing. And so, why would you ever want to leave? But, one day, as curiosity gets the better of him, a new boatman steps onto the island. Intertwining tenderness, despair, and humour, Alone captures how someone can be an everyman, and every man is someone.
Download or read book Alone In a Crowded Room written by Marcus Dean and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please, put the book down and walk away. You're not ready for everything contained in this book. You're going to get mad, you're going to get sad, and you're face is going to hurt. It's the rollercoaster ride your knuckles will bleed from, for holding on so tight. This book will jerk your chain, ruffle your feathers, smack you around, and leave you pondering. What can I say? I didn't wait 7 years to write this book so you can forget about it. You'll never forget about it, just like the people that have heard these stories before. This book has every aspect of life compiled into it's pages. Race, drugs, religion, relationships, and sex. Yeah, sex sells, but you may not like the sex in this book. Is that possible? After reading this book, you'll never see sex in the same way. Like I said, you can't handle this book. The T-bone steak in a world of hamburgers. Put it down.
Download or read book Alone in the Crowd written by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving the precinct in Copacabana without speaking to the chief, Dona Laureta is killed when she is hit by a bus two hours later, leading veteran police chief inspector Espinosa to investigate the strange accident and the woman's personal connection to a new suspect involved in an old murder.
Download or read book Alone in a Crowd written by Andrea Parmar and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always seemingly happy and talkative, the author shares the darkest secrets of her sixteen-year battle with an eating disorder. Hiding her insecurities “behind the mask” of a seemingly perfect life, Andrea struggles to be present in the moment even when surrounded by family and friends. Every moment, of each day, her thoughts and energy are consumed by body image concerns, distorted thoughts around food, and other mental health issues. Andrea often finds herself feeling “Alone in a Crowd” despite her professional knowledge and caring family. Her husband also shares his unique "partner's perspective", describing the stressors of being in a relationship consumed by a disordered-eating addiction. He candidly describes his frustrations, and feelings of powerlessness and betrayal, in their fight against food. Eventually, they both realize that a shift in mindset would be necessary for their marriage to survive. With the help of professional counselling services and personal reflection, Andrea is able to gain control over her self-harming ways. Despite overcoming this deadly addiction she soon discovers that “Life” doesn't stand up to applaud her accomplishment, but instead throws more hurdles her way including her recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.
Download or read book Alone in Crowds Or Kindlup Tower written by Annette M. Lyster and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family migrating to New Zealand are shipwrecked on an island in the south Pacific.
Download or read book The Hard Crowd written by Rachel Kushner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Download or read book Alone Yet Crowded written by Chrissy Corn and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an endearing collection of inspiring and thought-provoking poems written in a clear, clean style. Broken into 4 sections, it covers a full spectrum of ideas uniquely expressed by the author. The section on Grief reveals feelings few dare express, while the sections on Love and Creation delight and lift up the down hearted. This book will touch the emotions of young and old alike. It will quickly be a favorite to be read over and over.
Download or read book Alone in a Crowded Room written by Constance Bierkan and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When five-year-old Lexie Saunders learns she is adopted and is told she is handpicked by Mother from a line-up of baby cribs, her life is forever changed. Instead of feeling special, Lexie becomes haunted by Mama, the mystery lady who gave birth to her. The disappearance of Mama leaves a hole in Lexies heart, keeping her separate and feeling different from others. She often experiences acute loneliness even in the midst of a crowd of friends or family. Were she to learn the reason for her adoption, perhaps she would feel complete. However, searching for Mama means a possible rejection plus it might devastate the mother who has raised her. Lexie, Mama, and Mother have each suffered greatly: one the loss of a mother, one the loss of a child, and one the loss of fertility. Together in the adoption triad, they are like the notes of a musical chord, inextricably intertwined for better or worse. In recognition of her adopted grandparents and aunts unconditional love, Lexie will eventually gain the courage to search for answers plaguing her over a lifetime. Will they bring closure or open old wounds?
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Download or read book Gregory Crewdson Alone Street written by and published by Aperture. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist's obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson's unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, "all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson's scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots." In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.
Download or read book Thou Israel written by Charles Francis Stocking and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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