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Lädt ... Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (Pantheon Graphic Library) (2021. Auflage)von Kristen Radtke (Autor)
Werk-InformationenSeek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness von Kristen Radtke
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Delightful, quick-to-read book about the real & serious issue of loneliness. ( ) This book is really interesting. The way the author/illustrator put it together is unique. It’s a beautiful book and the illustrator and book designer use color in a way I found fascinating and absorbing, in both the illustrations and images and on blank pages too. Not too many colors or hues are used but on each page and in each section they’re used in a stunning manner. I found the illustration style odd but pleasant. The print on several of the pages was so tiny I had to assume readers were not meant to really read it. I tried to read it though. The author gives autobiographical information, biographical information about others, information about and results & quotes from various studies about loneliness and related topics, lists books and other sources, all within the book proper. Many of the images combine illustration/images and pertinent text on many of the pages. For me there was a melancholy feel to the narrative, apropos for the subject of loneliness. I enjoyed reading snippets of information I don’t remember ever knowing about the lives of some of the psychology researchers whose work I studied when I was in college. I wish I’d known even more back then about how mentally unhealthy some of them were. I supposed I should have realized that in most cases, even without knowing details about their personal lives. One finding I hadn’t considered and found interesting is how loneliness is contagious. I’ve known that anxiety could be contagious but I never thought of loneliness as contagious and that it was through more than just the people actually relating with one another, that people never near the lonely person can be affected by someone who has been. A lot of the accounts in this book are a criticism of modern American society. I found that particularly true in the section on old age and loneliness but it was true of the entire book, even though it was made clear that individuals can and do experience feelings of loneliness even when they’re not alone, are married, and are engaged with the world. In a way this book has depth and it has substance, but in terms of volume of substance there isn’t that much. Without the graphic content this could be a couple of short essays or maybe an article/paper. The six pages of notes at the end were interesting. This is not a book to read as an audio book! The images cannot be separated from the text and the text on its own would not have the same power. I don’t think there should be an audio edition of this book. I’m glad that I read this book and I have another book by this author/illustrator on my to read list that I also want to read.
At once a memoir, a personal essay about loneliness, an exploration of the science of solitude and its effects, and an invitation to come together in a world built to separate us, Seek You looks at isolation as a problem and investigates where it comes from, how it shapes us, and why we should battle against it....Seek You is more than the sum of its parts; this book is loneliness dissected, and the dissection involves all of us in a personal way that's impossible to not care about. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
"When Kristen Radtke was in her twenties, she learned that, as her father was growing up, he would crawl onto his roof in rural Wisconsin and send signals out on his ham radio. Those CQ calls were his attempt to reach somebody--anybody--who would respond. In Seek You, Radtke uses this image as her jumping off point into a piercing exploration of loneliness and the ways in which we attempt to feel closer to one another. She looks at the very real current crisis of loneliness through the lenses of gender, violence, technology, and art. Ranging from the invention of the laugh-track to Instagram to Harry Harlow's experiments in which infant monkeys were given inanimate surrogate mothers, Radtke uncovers all she can about how we engage with friends, family, and strangers alike, and what happens--to us and to them--when we disengage. With her distinctive, emotionally charged drawings and unflinchingly sharp prose, Kristen Radtke masterfully reframes some of our most vulnerable and sublime moments"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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