The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Hardcover

Marina Keegan

3.85

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9781471139604: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1471139603 ISBN 13: 9781471139604

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2014

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‘A generation-defining collection published posthumously... Her voice is relevant, sharp, fresh, unfiltered and poetic, with a dry wit. You can dive in and out of her questioning and her musings and meanderings. So much promise’ Jenna Coleman, star of Doctor Who and Victoria

Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.

As her family, friends and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.

Even though she was just 22 when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle we all face as we work out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.

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Review:

'This book shows her prodigious talent already in full bloom. Keegan may have died before her time, but she was a writer who demonstrated a gift beyond her years' Observer

'It's moving to watch this young woman speaking about everything being 'so beautiful and short' knowing what happened to her afterwards... Her voice is so fresh, her enthusiasm so appealing, her ambition so great that you cannot help but wonder what she might have achieved' Financial Times

'An extraordinary figure, a young person of enormous potential, who had already achieved a great deal...Throughout the 18 pieces in the collection, [that] pathos is delivered with a striking emotional intensity, in sharp and witty prose' New Statesman

We'll never know what else the talented author of these wise, funny essays and stories would have gone on to write... she's open and self-aware... this book shows that she was wrong [in thinking she would never do anything]'

'The promise it shows is just heart-breaking'

'The Opposite of Loneliness won the Goodreads Choice Awards non-fiction book for 2014. Members of the reading social network cast more than three million votes across 20 categories ranging from fiction to horror, young adult writing to poetry. Keegan's writing was one of the standout winners. The Independent

'Hailed as a prodigious talent and an 'icon for a generation', Marina's work has been critically acclaimed since its release in April' --Stylist

About the Author:

Marina Keegan (1989-2012) was an award-winning author, journalist, playwright, poet, actress and activist. Her non-fiction has been published in the New York Times; her fiction has been published on NewYorker.com and read on NPR's Selected Shorts; her musical, Independents, was a New York Times Critics' Pick. Marina's final essay for the Yale Daily News, 'The Opposite of Loneliness', became an instant global sensation, viewed by more than 1.4 million people from 98 countries. For more information, visit www.theoppositeofloneliness.com

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