☰

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby

From the author of Men Explain Things to Me, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy â‚¬â€œ a fitting companion to Solnitâ‚¬s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Â
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own storiesâ‚¬"of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illnessâ‚¬"Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories: about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the leper colonies, and Mary Shelleyâ‚¬s Dr. Frankenstein, about warmth and coldness, pain and kindness, decay and transformation, making art and making self. Woven together, these stories create a map which charts the boundaries and territories of storytelling, reframing who each of us is and how we might tell our story.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_0143125494
Color White
ReleaseDate 2014-04-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143125495

You might also like...