BIBFRAME Work

Title

So lonely : our desire for community and what drives us apart

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Bagguley, Matt, 1971- (translator)
• Østby, Hilde, 1974- (author )

Subject

• Loneliness (LCSH)
• Social isolation (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

LCC: BF575.L7 O7813 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Note

In English, translated from the Norwegian.

Summary

"Far beyond a personal difficulty, loneliness has grown into a problem that plagues whole societies. Many countries, including the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, have gone as far to declare a loneliness epidemic. Loneliness can lead to depression and anxiety, and can even increase your chance of death by 26%. But what defines loneliness, and is it true that we are lonelier now than we have ever been? As COVID-19 forced entire populations into isolation in 2020, author Hilde ¢stby set out to investigate loneliness in all its forms. To frame this huge, multidisciplinary undertaking, she turned to the Moomin novels by revered Norwegian children's author Tove Jansson. Under the watchful eye of such Jansson creations as the tragically alienated Groke, this fascinating book recounts ¢stby's own struggles with the condition and her many conversations with researchers, artists, and journalists who have looked closely at the myriad faces of loneliness and the ways it can be overcome. Again and again, she returns to the nightmarish events of the 2011 Ut²ya terrorist attacks, a collective trauma for Norwegian society that ¢stby views as permeated with loneliness, in both its causes and effects. This is a deeply personal and yet universally relevant book about the costs to all when some are pushed out of society. But it is also a book about the incredible capabilities of human beings--how resilient we are, and how we survive and find ourselves through our relationships with others."-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Østby, Hilde, 1974-. So lonely : our desire for community and what drives us apart

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:15:08.192162+00:00
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• Status: c
• Derived from: 24063872

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