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- Book Title
- Opposite of Loneliness : Essays and Stories
- Publication Name
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
- Title
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 147675361X
- EAN
- 9781476753614
- ISBN
- 9781476753614
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Personal Memoirs, Literary, Essays
- Release Date
- 08/04/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" ( O, The Oprah Magazine ). Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker . Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story "Cold Pastoral" was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay "Even Artichokes Have Doubts" was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times . Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. As Marina wrote: "We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over...We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have." The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. "How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful" ( People ).
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Scribner
ISBN-10
147675361x
ISBN-13
9781476753614
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038660547
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Book Title
Opposite of Loneliness : Essays and Stories
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Personal Memoirs, Literary, Essays
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
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I will never cease mourning the loss of my beloved former student Marina Keegan. This book gives partial evidence of the extraordinary promise that departed with her. Throughout she manifests authentic dramatic invention and narrative skill. Beyond all those, she makes a vital appeal to everyone in her generation not to waste their gifts in mere professionalism but instead to invest their youthful pride and exuberance both in self-development and in the improvement of our tormented society., Many of my students sound forty years old. They are articulate but derivative, their own voices muffled by their desire to skip over their current age and experience, which they fear trivial, and land on some version of polished adulthood without passing Go. Marina was twenty-one and sounded twenty-one: a brainy twenty-one, a twenty-one who knew her way around the English language, a twenty-one who understood that there were few better subjects than being young and uncertain and starry-eyed and frustrated and hopeful. When she read her work aloud around our seminar table, it would make us snort with laughter, and then it would turn on a dime and break our hearts., Funny, poignant, tender, and fiercely alive, 'The Opposite of Loneliness' contains the keen observations of a short lifetime-and the wisdom of a much longer one., The writing Marina Keegan left behind offers a tantalizing taste of a literary voice still in development, yet already imbued with unusual insight, nuance, humor, and sensitivity., The Opposite of Loneliness does [Keegan's] talent and memory justice, both as a picture of a generation entering adulthood and as a highly personal portrait of a gifted young woman., In her short life, Keegan exhibited uncanny wisdom for an individual of any age, and a literary talent perhaps even more rare., How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, [Keegan] could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful., Keegan's fiction... is built around the kind of empathetic extrapolation that makes for all the best realism... Keegan would have been--would have continued to be--a star. She would have been famous, not quietly or vaguely, but really, really famous., A bittersweet, what-might-have-been book filled with youthful optimism, energy, honesty, and beyond-her-years wisdom., What a gift Keegan has left behind. Not only in her written words...but also in her legacy of social activism and fierce belief in leading a life of purpose, not privilege.|9781476753614|, This posthumous collection of essays and short stories is beautiful and brilliant, young but not childish--just like the author was. Every essay is a gem you want to pick up and put in your pocket, taking it out from time to time to see how it looks in different lights--the lights of promise and potential, yearning and memory. The Opposite of Loneliness will make people cry and hope., Full of uncanny wisdom...Marina would not want to be remembered because she was dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good. No worries there, Marina. You left us aching for more., This posthumous collection of essays and short stories is beautiful and brilliant, young but not childish-just like the author was. Every essay is a gem you want to pick up and put in your pocket, taking it out from time to time to see how it looks in different lights-the lights of promise and potential, yearning and memory. The Opposite of Loneliness will make people cry and hope., Remarkable... a compelling literary voice... the appeal of this collection is its improvisational quality, its feeling of being unfinished but always questioning., The Opposite of Loneliness captures in both fiction and nonfiction [Keegan's] adventures in love and lust, the weird bliss of being stoned, and, as she writes, what it's like to see 'everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.', In her brief life Marina Keegan managed to achieve a precocious literary mastery. Her wry, wise, lyrical voice is unforgettable, and her vital, exuberant spirit reminds us powerfully to seize the day. Though every sentence throbs with what might have been, this remarkable collection is ultimately joyful and inspiring, because it represents the wonder that she was., In the little time [Keegan] graced the world she created a life's work many writers could only dream of achieving in decades., The loveliest piece of writing I've ever seen from someone so young... Her voice is steady and often very funny, her senses of character and pace are frighteningly good, and the flow of her prose is easy to get carried away by. She wasn't just college-talented; she was talented, period., A glimpse of a young woman who is growing as a writer and a person, someone who's thinking deeply about love and the world around her and the scale of the universe....I have no doubt she would have been great., Funny, poignant, tender, and fiercely alive, 'The Opposite of Loneliness' contains the keen observations of a short lifetime--and the wisdom of a much longer one., Keegan's short stories are relatable and entertaining while her essays, including some of her op-eds from the Yale Daily News, showcase her work as an already accomplished writer. Young writers everywhere will look to her as an inspiration., Keegan's fiction... is built around the kind of empathetic extrapolation that makes for all the best realism... Keegan would have been-would have continued to be-a star. She would have been famous, not quietly or vaguely, but really, really famous., [Keegan ] was one of the most present, incisive, and hopeful writers.... That's the gift and the pain of her book. How incredible, how lucky, that we get to read her words, that people who never knew her or her work can find it for themselves, that she was in some way given the chance to speak to the world the way she wanted., Wonderful... Marina Keegan did that thing we all want to do as writers: say what everyone else is thinking, but better., Illuminates the optimism and neurosis felt by new grads everywhere. . .Like every millenial who's seen irony elevated to an art form, Keegan brings self-awareness to the collective insecurity of her peers even as she captures it with a precision that only comes from someone who feels it too. How unfortunate that she will never know the value readers will find in her work., Ms. Keegan takes on the meaningful and mundane with wit and grace. Her words alternatively swagger and tiptoe.... Reading this book is both heartbreaking and entertaining.", Two years after a young writer's death, her words soar. . . . The Opposite of Loneliness... sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth. The prose, polished but thoroughly unselfconscious, is heartbreaking evidence of what could have been.
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2013-030131
Dewey Decimal
818/.609
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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