Four Seasons of Loneliness

A Lawyer's Case Stories

By: J. W. Freiberg

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

What happens when loneliness engulfs us? How do we manage life when the absence of adequate connections becomes an excruciating hunger?

During his extraordinary decades-long career as an attorney, J. W. Freiberg consulted on hundreds of cases involving clients affected by chronic and debilitating loneliness. Here, in four adapted stories from his practice, he reveals how loneliness can impact us in every season of our lives. A fascinating cast of characters emerges: the traumatized teenager forever branded as a sexual predator, the man who spends the prime of his life in solitary confinement in Mao-era China, the truck driver whose self-education isolates him from his community, and the professor at the end of his life who has vast knowledge about the history of love but none to call his own.

Told through Freiberg's unique lens of a social psychologist turned lawyer, Four Seasons of Loneliness explores the fallout of losing the connections so fundamental to our survival and the ways in which we seek to find again the bonds that sustain us.

©2016 J. Walter Freiberg, III (P)2016 J. Walter Freiberg, III

Thoughtful & Beautiful

I cried. I listened to this in one go. The stories were heartbreaking. Do not hesitate to read this.

Best narration ever

Never have I heard a more excellent narrator. The level at which he captures the emotions is really is a level of its own league

The Narrator Made it Excruciating

Where does Four Seasons of Loneliness rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The stories are interesting but the strained theme of loneliness to connect them is tiring. Where did they get this narrator? He has this whiney, melodramatic, pathetic drone he employs to describe sad people. It makes me want to jump out of my car and shake someone.

Strong content

This book discusses child abuse and is not happy reading. I bought it to assist me in dealing with loneliness. It didn't help.