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Author : John Boyne
Release : 2015-02-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 335/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Loneliness by : John Boyne
Download or read book A History of Loneliness written by John Boyne. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An honorable priest recalls his life and ultimately confronts his own complicity in the heinous acts of his best friend from the seminary"-- Provided by publisher.
Author : John Boyne
Release : 2015-02-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 022/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Loneliness by : John Boyne
Download or read book A History of Loneliness written by John Boyne. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church collapsing around him at a pivotal moment in its history. Propelled into the priesthood by a family tragedy, Odran Yates is full of hope and ambition. When he arrives at Clonliffe Seminary in the 1970s, it is a time in Ireland when priests are highly respected, and Odran believes that he is pledging his life to "the good." Forty years later, Odran's devotion is caught in revelations that shatter the Irish people's faith in the Catholic Church. He sees his friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed, and grows nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insults. At one point, he is even arrested when he takes the hand of a young boy and leads him out of a department store looking for the boy's mother. But when a family event opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within the church, and to recognize his own complicity in their propagation, within both the institution and his own family. A novel as intimate as it is universal, A History of Loneliness is about the stories we tell ourselves to make peace with our lives. It confirms Boyne as one of the most searching storytellers of his generation.
Author : John Boyne
Release : 2014-09-04
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 811/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of Loneliness by : John Boyne
Download or read book A History of Loneliness written by John Boyne. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripping, harrowing and extremely moving... A painfully page-turning read...' - The Sunday Times Clonliffe Seminary, 1972. Odran Yates arrives after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He is full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the Church. And when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once-respected institution, and recognize his own complicity in their propagation. From the award-winning author of The Heart's Invisible Furies, comes this courageous and intensely personal tale. Readers are moved by A History of Loneliness: ***** 'Captivating, absorbing, heart-wrenching. A must read.' ***** 'A really powerful story from an author renowned for writing such stories.' ***** 'One of the most moving books I have ever read.'
Author : Fay Bound Alberti
Release : 2019-09-12
Genre : Loneliness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Biography of Loneliness by : Fay Bound Alberti
Download or read book A Biography of Loneliness written by Fay Bound Alberti. This book was released on 2019-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite 21st-century fears of a modern "epidemic" of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Usingletters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, itslanguage did not exist.As Alberti shows, the birth of loneliness is linked to the development of modernity: the all-encompassing ideology of the individual that has emerged in the mind and physical sciences, in economic structures, in philosophy and politics. While it has a biography of its own, loneliness impacts onpeople differently, according to their gender, ethnicity, religion, outlook, and socio-economic position. It is, Alberti argues, not a single state but an "emotion cluster", composed of a wide variety of responses that include fear, anger, resentment and sorrow. In spite of this, loneliness is notalways negative. And it is physical as well as psychological: loneliness is a product of the body as much as the mind.Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern emotional state. From social media addiction to widowhood, from homelessness to the oldest old, from mall hauls to massages,loneliness appears in all aspects of 21st-century life. Yet we cannot address its meanings, let alone formulate a cure, without attention to its complex, protean history.
Author : John Boyne
Release : 2015
Genre : Child sexual abuse
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis A History of Loneliness by : John Boyne
Download or read book A History of Loneliness written by John Boyne. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
