On Loneliness

How to Feel Less Alone In an Isolating World

On Loneliness
Terri Laxton Brooks
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Paperback
h215 x 139mm - 256pg
29 Nov 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781647422875
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-A useful tool for readers' lives : This inspiring, accessible, quick read reveals one woman' s intimate and successful path through loneliness and gives readers courage and tools to do the same. -Timely: The topic of loneliness has been especially present in the news and people' s hearts during the COVID-19 pandemic; those who feel lonelier than ever before are in good company, and this book is the guide they need to get to a better place. -Addresses an important, prevalent issue: 3 out of 5 Americans are lonely and most of them are young people, a phenomenon exacerbated by screen time, social media, and more recently the pandemic. -Strong sales of first published edition: : Sold 18,000 copies in the first three months and was a Goodreads "Must Read" pick.
Terri Laxton Brooks grew up in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a farm town of one-square-mile surrounded by cornfields. The first in her family to go to college, she majored in journalism and French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1960s. Her first job out of college was as a Metro reporter for the Chicago Tribune. After four years at the Tribune, she moved to New York City, where she became a professor and then chair of the journalism department at NYU for nineteen years. She later served as dean of the Penn State college of communications. The author of three other nonfiction titles-Bittersweet: Surviving and Growing from Loneliness, Women Can Wait: The Pleasures of Motherhood After 30, and Words' Worth: Write Well and Prosper-Terri has also published hundreds of articles in publications including the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Harper' s, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Columbia Journalism Review, and Writer' s Digest. She has a wonderful son who serves as a Lieutenant Commander on Destroyers in the U. S. Navy. She currently lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781647422875
Published: 29 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: She Writes Press
Publisher: She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 215mm
Width: 139mm
Pages: 256

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