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THE OPPOSITE OF LONELINESS
By: Marina Keegan
Essays and Stories
Scribner
April 2014
On Sale: April 8, 2014
Featuring: Marina Keegan
240 pages
ISBN: 147675361X
EAN: 9781476753614
Kindle: B00DPM7RHY
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An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the worldβs attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keeganβs 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 International 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 unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, βThe Opposite of Loneliness,β went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord. Even though she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemΒblage of Marinaβs essays and stories that, like The Last Lecture, articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.
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