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The opposite of loneliness essays and stories

"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale i...

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Main Author: Keegan, Marina, 1989-2012
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
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Short stories, American > 21st century.
American essays > 21st century.
Short stories.
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Summary:"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her deeply affecting last essay for The Yale Daily News, "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. Even though she was just twenty-two years old when she died, Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, capture the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story, "Cold Pastoral," was published in NewYorker.com just months after her death. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories, which, like The Last Lecture, articulate the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be, and how we harness our talents to impact the world"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:xxiii, 208 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781476753614 (hardback)
147675361X (hardback)
9781476753911 (trade paperback)
1476753911 (trade paperback)
Author Notes:Marina Keegan was born in Wayland, Massachusetts on October 25, 1989. She was a journalist and playwright who won national attention for urging her fellow college students to resist the lure of Wall Street when she helped organize a protest challenging campus recruiting. She graduated from Yale University in 2012 and was going to be an assistant at The New Yorker magazine. She died in a car crash on May 26, 2012 at the age of 22. She wrote a musical with two other students entitled Independents, which was a prize-winning selection in the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. Her book, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, was published in 2014.

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