Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living

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Available on: 2025-06-05 at 3:00 am

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Dimensions 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback

Language

Pages

160

Publisher

Year Published

2025-6-5

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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1399744097

Beautifully written and elegantly constructed, Alone explores the tension between our desire for the freedom of solitude, and the draw of companionship, and questions how we might disentangle ourselves from inherited ideas about how to live. Romantic love is this relentless grand narrative in our culture but it's only one way of living – what about the grand narrative of friendship? I absolutely loved reading it.

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The most moving, memorable books are the ones that attempt to answer questions that the author has been struggling with for his entire life. In Alone, Daniel Schreiber – a beautiful writer and, just as important, a beautiful thinker – explores the questions of not just his life, but our age: Who am I if no one loves me? What are the limits of friendship? How does one live with deep and profound loneliness? This is a book for not just this year, but this era