The Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby” is a poignant vignette of loneliness in later adulthood. (“All the lonely people,” the singers lament. “Where do they all come from?”) In surveys, about a third of ...
If you were asked to imagine a lonely person, you might picture a character very similar to Liz Dunn, the protagonist of Douglas Coupland's latest novel, Eleanor Rigby. Liz has a boring job, a ...