Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World - Tapa blanda

Halpern, Sue

 
9780679742418: Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World
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ISBN 10: 0679742417 ISBN 13: 9780679742418
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Sinopsis

Profoundly original essays from the author of Summer Hours at the Robbers Library about the nature of solitude and privacy in a culture where our laws, technology, and lifestyles are increasingly chipping away at them both.

Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are chipping it away?

These are some of the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is the first—and perhaps the most essential—thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only to the routes of solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there.

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Acerca del autor

SUE HALPERN received her doctorate from Oxford University in 1985 and first began teaching at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the author of Four Wings and a Prayer, Migrations to Solitude, and two books of fiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Condé Nast Traveler, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She lives in Ripton, Vermont, with her husband, writer Bill McKibben, and their daughter, Sophie, and is a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.

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Editorial
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679742417
ISBN 13 
9780679742418
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
225
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