{"product_id":"everybody-a-book-about-freedom-9781324022022","title":"Everybody: A Book about Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and traveling 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, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and Malcolm X.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Arriving at a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, \u003cem\u003eEverybody\u003c\/em\u003e is an investigation into the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaing, Olivia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of five acclaimed works of nonfiction, including \u003cem\u003eThe Lonely City\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFunny Weather.\u003c\/em\u003e Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eCrudo\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize. The recipient of the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in nonfiction, Laing lives in Suffolk, United Kingdom.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50650455343378,"sku":"9781324022022","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f53ef736-f08f-4fc2-8143-6823aeee50ce.jpg?v=1733289503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/everybody-a-book-about-freedom-9781324022022","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}