Everybody

A Book About Freedom

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - <i>Guardian</i><br>'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>From the award-winning author of <i>Crudo</i>, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.</b><br><br>Drawing on their own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.<br><br>At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, <i>Everybody</i> is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom - and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.<br><br><b>Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.<br><br>'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' - <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>'Sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin' - <i>Financial Times</i> </b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781509857128

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 124 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan