Bibliograph

We need to hang out, a memoir of making friends, Billy Baker

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We need to hang out, a memoir of making friends, Billy Baker

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We need to hang out

Oclc number

1162986002

Responsibility statement

Billy Baker

Sub title

a memoir of making friends

Summary

At the age of forty, Billy Baker discovers that he's lost something crucial along the way: his friends. Other priorities always seemed to come first, until all his close friendships had lapsed into distant memories. When he takes an assignment to write an article about the modern loneliness epidemic, he realizes just how common it is to be a middle-aged loner: almost fifty million Americans over the age of forty-five, especially men, suffer from chronic loneliness, which the surgeon general has declared one of the nation's "greatest pathologies," worse than smoking, obesity, or heart disease in increasing a person's risk for premature death. Determined to defy these odds, Baker vows to salvage his lost friendships and blaze a path for men (and women) everywhere to improve their relationships old and newA middle-aged everyman who realizes that he doesn't have any close friends is inspired to set out on a humorous and ultimately moving quest to revive old tribes and build new ones, all with the goal of having someone to hang out with on Wednesday nights

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