{"product_id":"end-of-solitude","title":"End of Solitude","description":"A passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics―former Yale English professor and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner William Deresiewicz.\n\nWhat is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time.\n\nRanging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance of the hipster, and the purpose of art. Drawing on the past, they ask how we got where we are. Scrutinizing the present, they seek to understand how we can live more mindfully and freely, and they pose two fundamental questions: What does it mean to be an individual, and how can we sustain our individuality in an age of networks and groups?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1250858631\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1250858631.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Deresiewicz, William\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41435208253498,"sku":"DBV.1250858631.VG","price":8.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1250858631-0.jpg?v=1779992648","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/end-of-solitude","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}