The Lonely American : Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

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Alarming trends: 1 out of 4 americans confided in "no one" in the last 6 months; more people rather talk a/b being "depressed" instead of being "lonely"; B. Ehrenreich's "cult of busyness" as a badge of honor; "cocooning inside their own homes and the absence of witnesses"; fathers not wanting to...

from bouillabaisse

Alarming trends: 1 out of 4 americans confided in "no one" in the last 6 months; more people rather talk a/b being "depressed" instead of being "lonely"; B. Ehrenreich's "cult of busyness" as a badge of honor; "cocooning inside their own homes and the absence of witnesses"; fathers not wanting to...

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I see loneliness as endemic to contemporary America. Everywhere I go, I meet the lonely. Olds explores this issue. How did this come to occur? Why? Where? What can be done about it?Like most books about social problems, the thinnest section of the book is home remedies. And that is the section we...

from bouillabaisse

Alarming trends: 1 out of 4 americans confided in "no one" in the last 6 months; more people rather talk a/b being "depressed" instead of being "lonely"; B. Ehrenreich's "cult of busyness" as a badge of honor; "cocooning inside their own homes and the absence of witnesses"; fathers not wanting to...

from bouillabaisse

Alarming trends: 1 out of 4 americans confided in "no one" in the last 6 months; more people rather talk a/b being "depressed" instead of being "lonely"; B. Ehrenreich's "cult of busyness" as a badge of honor; "cocooning inside their own homes and the absence of witnesses"; fathers not wanting to...