On Agoraphobia

Graham Caveney

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English

Picador
26 July 2022

Biography: literary; Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Coping with anxiety & phobias

If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe.

When Graham Caveney was in his early twenties he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors.

Graham's quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee's Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson, and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics - once you go looking for them.

On Agoraphobia is a fascinating, entertaining and sometimes painfully acute look at what it means to go through life with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.

By: Graham Caveney
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 143mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9781529057713
ISBN 10: 152905771X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 26 July 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Graham Caveney is a freelance writer. He has written on music and fiction for the NME, The Face and the Independent. He is the author of three previous books, including The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness, which was longlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize, and shortlisted for the Portico Prize.

Reviews for On Agoraphobia

One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny - even when he's writing about the most difficult subjects. -- Jonathan Coe Graham Caveney approaches the subject of agoraphobia diaristically, legally, and philosophically; he drinks about it, reads about it, has therapy about it, and assembles the long and fascinating history of its writers. Any of these approaches could have been its own book. But the best part of this book is the silence Caveney somehow also manages to include on the page, which holds space for the phobia's mute, ineffable, terrifying center. -- Sarah Manguso