All the Lonely People
Conversations on Loneliness
$31.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
‘Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human’ – Michael Harris, author of Solitude
In stories of love and loss, of trauma and hope, told from care homes, living rooms, classrooms and kitchens, All the Lonely People is an intimate portrait of loneliness. Over countless cups of tea, psychologist Dr Sam Carr has collected hours of conversations with people young and old, including single parents, carers, teenagers and the bereaved, and found that while each of their stories is utterl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035005529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035005522 |
| Author: | Sam Carr |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 153mm x 233mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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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
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.
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