Further Details

Title: Everybody
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Book About Freedom
ISBN-10: 1509857125
EAN: 9781509857128
ISBN: 9781509857128
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 26/05/2022
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 262g
Author: Olivia Laing
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Law & Politics
Release Year: 2022
Description:

'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian
'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday Times

From the award-winning author of Crudo, 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.

Drawing on her 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.

At a time when basic rights are once again in danger, Everybody 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.

Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.

'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' – Evening Standard

'Sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin' – Financial Times

Missing Information?

Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.