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001			on1162986002
003			OCoLC
005			20210209141933.0
008			200706s2021 nyu 000 0beng d
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dBDX _dLMJ _dOCO _dIH9 _dOCLCO _dOQX _dOCLCF _dQS3 _dNFG
020			_a9781982111083 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1982111089 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1162986002
092			_a158.2509 _bB167
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBaker, Billy _c(Journalist), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWe need to hang out : _ba memoir of making friends / _cBilly Baker.
250			_aFirst Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAvid Reader Press, _c2021.
300			_a208 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aAt 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 new.
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aFriendship. _932691
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations.
650		0	_aLoneliness. _927991
655		7	_aHumor. _2lcgft _920126
655		7	_aSelf-help publications. _2lcgft _9322522
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c324221 _d324221