# A History of Loneliness

**Author(s):** John Boyne
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-history-of-loneliness/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, literary-fiction
**Pages:** 384
**Publisher:** Doubleday
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780857520951
**ISBN-10:** 0857520954
**ASIN:** B00LRXCFCU
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction > British & Irish
**Amazon binding:** $62.14
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-history-of-loneliness

## SageChimp reader verdict

A History of Loneliness has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 3.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/a-history-of-loneliness/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Religion & Faith

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
This had to be one of the more infuriating books I have ever read. Is it possible such a clueless person could ever have existed? Odran is written so well by John Boyne that I ended up hating the book . Some other reviewers have speculated that Boyne's creation of the willfully ignorant Odran was due to his underestimating the intelligence of his reader. But I don't think that's true. I think he did it on purpose and it's illustrated by Odran's father that last day at the breakfast table. If Odr