The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

by Keegan, Marina
ISBN: 9781476753911
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The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" (O, The Oprah Magazine).

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

Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story "Cold Pastoral" was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay "Even Artichokes Have Doubts" was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media.

As Marina wrote: "We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over...We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have." The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina's essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. "How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful" (People).

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Keegan, Marina
  • ISBN: 9781476753911
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.30 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2015

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  • You're not as alone as you think you are.

    37 I. - 7 years ago

    I don't normally like books of short stories or essays. I don't usually even pick them up. But the title of Marina Keegan's book caught me, because hey, what a nice idea. I didn't realize until I'd started it that the author had died a few days after she graduated -- it's the sort of tragedy liable to make cynical people believe there's no other explanation for the book's bestseller status, but the truth is that Keegan was just an incredible talent (for any age, but especially for hers), and her collection of stories and essays speaks for itself. Each of them is remarkable, but the very first one and the very last are my favorite because they capture exactly the terrifying, exhilarating moment of having just graduated university and not knowing what to do with the rest of your life -- and how maybe, that's okay. Maybe, it's even pretty awesome, because you're not as alone as you think you are.

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