The Faraway Nearby
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The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
From the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost 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 stories--of her mother and her decline from memory loss, of a trip to Iceland, of an illness--Solnit revisits fairytales and entertains other stories: about arctic explorers, Che Guevara among the leper colonies, and Mary Shelley'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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780670025961 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670025968 |
| Title | The Faraway Nearby |
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 2013-06-13 |
| Number of pages | 259 |
| Prizes | Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2014, Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography) 2013, Commended for Literary Award (Creative Nonfiction) 2014 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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