All the Lonely People
conversations on loneliness
$47.42
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2024
Summary
All the Lonely People: Finding Connection in a Disconnected World
An intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychologist Dr. Sam Carr collect hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers, and the bereaved – all shared over countless cups of tea.
In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms, and kitchens, Carr discovers that while each of their sto…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005512 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005514 |
| Author: | Sam Carr |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 143mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
In this elegant and fascinating book the taboo of loneliness is lifted. Sam Carr invites us into the lives of the lonely, and also into his own. His encounters — empathetic, enlightening, deeply human — help us to look deeply at a state of being that so many have come to fear. – Michael Harris, author of Solitude and The End of Absence
About The Author
Sam Carr
Sam Carr is a psychologist and social scientist with the Department of Education and Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. He was the director of The Loneliness Project, a partnership between the University of Bath and Guild Living (a later living retirement community provider). He has written extensively in the media about his research and has spoken about it on local and national radio, as well as being an academic expert on various television documentaries. Sam lives in rural Wiltshire with his son and their cat. All the Lonely People is his first book.
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