- Title:
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Funny Weather (MP3)
- Written by:
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Olivia Laing
- Read by:
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Sophie Aldred
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 42 minutes
- MP3 size:
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404 MB
- Published:
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April 16 2020
- Available Date:
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April 16 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529046854
- Genres:
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Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century.
In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the 21st century.
Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe; interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith; writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury; and explores loneliness and technology; women and alcohol; sex and the body. With characteristic originality and compassion, she celebrates art as a force of resistance and repair, an antidote to a frightening political time.
We’re often told art can’t change anything. Laing argues that it can. It changes how we see the world. It makes plain inequalities and it offers fertile new ways of living.
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art.'
The Telegraph
‘A warm, thinking, enticing sweep of a book, like spending the afternoon with your brainiest friend.’
Kate Mosse, bestselling author