Migrations to Solitude
The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 April 1993
Summary
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 we chipping it away?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679742418 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679742417 |
| Author: | Sue Halpern |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 1993 |
| Weight: | 257g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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About The Author
Sue Halpern
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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