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    代理商:大苹果
    页数:256
    定价:0.00 美元
    上传日期:2020-6-19 0:00:00

    ALONE TOGETHER: LOVE, GRIEF, AND COMFORT DURING THE TIME OF COVID-19

    Book ID/图书代码: 12580020C00036

    English Summary/英文概要: ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. Jennifer Haupt, editor and curator of this anthology, and Central Avenue Publishing, as well as all contributing authors, are donating net profits to The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization that coordinates charitable programs to strengthen the bookselling community. In response to the pandemic, Ms. Haupt rallied more than 90 authors to contribute their work to ALONE TOGETHER, free of charge, to support struggling independent booksellers forced to close their doors. The roster of diverse voices includes Kwame Alexander, Jenna Blum, Andre Dubus III, Jamie Ford, Nikki Giovanni, Pam Houston, Jean Kwok, Major Jackson, Caroline Leavitt, Ada Limón, Dani Shapiro, David Sheff, Garth Stein, Luis Alberto Urrea, Steve Yarbrough, and Lidia Yuknavitch. ALONE TOGETHER is divided into five sections: Love, Grief, Comfort, Grace, and Possibilities. The overarching theme is how this age of isolation and uncertainty is changing us as individuals and a society.

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    Awards/获奖情况:"I loved Alone Together. It’s a brilliant, diverse, rich collections of essays, poetry, essays and dialogue by some of our most important (and some of my personal favorite) authors. Of course, the writing is as beautiful as it is varied. While the subject matter is overwhelmingly depressing, it’s also reassuring to read that I’m not alone in what I’m feeling. These are powerful messages of unity and hope in a time of isolation and despair. Alone Together is a very important work that has emerged from a very dark time." --Kevin O’Brien, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Bad Sister and The Betrayed Wife

    "Alone Together connects writers, readers, and booksellers in a wonderfully imaginative way. It’s a really good book for a really good cause." --James Patterson, Bestselling author, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation

    "Alone Together showcases the human desire to grieve, explore, comfort, connect, and simply sit with the world as it weathers the pandemic. Jennifer Haupt’s timely and moving anthology also benefits the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, making it a project that is noble in both word and deed." --Ann Patchett, Bestselling author, bookseller, and Co-Ambassador for The Book Industry Charitable Foundation.

    ALONE TOGETHER received this lovely Kirkus review:
    An anthology of poems, essays, interviews, and reflections inspired by the COVID-19 lockdown, with proceeds benefitting independent booksellers.

    During the pandemic, book tours have been cancelled, bookstores closed, and book deals delayed. What is the literary community to do? Write about it, of course, and try to find or make some meaning out of a period when everything seems so uncertain and unstable. Editor Haupt describes the book, which features contributions from “90 authors (68 in the print book and another 22 in the e-book edition),” as “this Lovely Monster,” one that addresses “a vast, overwhelming question that became the pumping heart of this book: What Now?” Of course, there are plenty of mournful pieces concerning illness and death in pandemic isolation, but importantly, there’s a sense that life goes on, reinforcing the spirit of interconnectedness as so many of us remain apart. “In telling our stories, we hope to enable you to tell your story,” writes Haupt. “That’s the sweet spot of connections, where the healing happens.” Many of the essays find some consolation in the feelings of grace and emotions of tenderness we experience now that we’re no longer living in what Luis Albert Urrea describes as “our continual tantrum of consumption and aggression.” In a hopeful interview with Haupt, Urrea describes those suffering through isolation as “yearning for our better selves, desperately dreaming of a kinder world in the days to come.” The collection is diverse in age, race, and ethnicity, and gender perspective is a focus of many of the pieces, which offer informed speculation on the many ways that things will never be the same. In addition to some voices that may not be widely known, the book includes a smorgasbord of big names: Kwame Alexander, Nikki Giovanni, David Sheff, Lidia Yuknavitch, Dani Shapiro, Garth Stein, Andre Dubus III, Dinty Moore, and Ada Limón.

    A heartening gathering of writers joining forces for community support.

    About the Author/作者介绍: Jennifer Haupt is an author and journalist who has written for O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, The Rumpus, The Seattle Times, Spirituality & Health, The Sun, Travel & Leisure, and many other publications.

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