Sue Halpern
Broschiertes Buch

Migrations to Solitude

The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World

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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 our laws, technology, and lifestyles increasingly chipping it away? These are somong the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these profoundly original essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places wher...