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Crudo by Olivia Laing
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"She had no idea what to do with love, she experienced it as invasion, as the prelude to loss and pain, she really didn't have a clue."Kathy is a writer. Kathy is getting married. It's the summer of 2017 and the whole world is falling apart. Fast-paced and frantic, Crudo unfolds in real time from the fu ...Show more
Everybody : A Book About Freedom by Olivia Laing
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays
'Simply one of our most exciting writers' Observer 'One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction' Harper's Bazaar 'Laing combines formidable intelligence with boundless curiosity and fabulous taste' James Lasdun The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant ...Show more
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$50.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art + Design
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Travel
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Bibliophilia | Series: Canons
Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway ...Show more
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Canons
Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore. Lyrical and ...Show more
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