{"product_id":"migrations-to-solitude","title":"Migrations to Solitude - The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World","description":"\u003cb\u003eProfoundly original essays from the author of \u003ci\u003eSummer Hours at the Robbers Library \u003c\/i\u003eabout the nature of solitude and privacy in a culture where our laws, technology, and lifestyles are increasingly chipping away at them both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed—or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we can count as a basic right, why are chipping it away?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are some of the themes that Sue Halpern eloquently explores in these essays. In pursuit of the riddle of solitude, Halpern talks to Trappist monks and secular hermits, corresponds with a prisoner in solitary confinement, and visits and AIDS hospice and a shelter for the homeless places where privacy is the first—and perhaps the most essential—thing to go. This is a book that lends weight to the ideas that have become dangerously abstract in a society of data bases and car faxes, a guide not only to the routes of solitude but to the selves we discover only when we arrive there.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972627239200,"sku":"9780679742418","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780679742418.jpg?v=1764176124","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/es\/products\/migrations-to-solitude","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}