Keep the Aspidistra Flying Condition:Good How to Be Alone is

How to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved

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She writes: "When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying Condition:Good How to Be Alone isLondon, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth eaten already," a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen "flatter than any pancake," Gordon has given up a "good" job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes),