Author： Marina Keegan

Publisher： Scribner

An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate.

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 International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically， five days after graduation， Marina died in a car crash.

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 assem-blage of Marina’s 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.

這是一部充滿希望、令人動容的隨筆散文集，是畢業(yè)于耶魯大學(xué)的年輕才女的遺作。

瑪麗娜·基亙于2012年5月以優(yōu)異的成績從耶魯畢業(yè)，前途一片光明。她的原創(chuàng)短劇將登上紐約國際藝穗節(jié)的舞臺，《紐約客》也向她拋出橄欖枝。不幸的是，畢業(yè)五天后，瑪麗娜在一場車禍中喪生。

盡管芳華早逝，但她留下了廣泛而豐富的文章，如同她那篇同名散文，捕捉到了她這代人的希望、捉摸不定和可能性。《孤獨的反面》收集了所有瑪麗娜的散文和故事，如其中《最后一課》一樣，講述了我們大家在認清自己的渴求，考慮如何發(fā)揮才能影響世界時都要面對的糾結(jié)。