Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern - ISBN: 9780679742418
Paperback
Explore solitude’s allure and dread in our data-driven world.

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?

These are s…

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
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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