Everybody: A Book about Freedom

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with...
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Author: Olivia Laing
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Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Laing, Olivia

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

$212.19

Everybody: A Book about Freedom

$212.19
Author: Olivia Laing
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.

Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling 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, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X.

Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Everybody is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.



Author: Olivia Laing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/09/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.54w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781324022022

About the Author
Laing, Olivia: - Olivia Laing is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her first novel, Crudo, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom.

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