The Faraway Nearby - Rilegato

Solnit, Rebecca

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ISBN 10: 0670025968 ISBN 13: 9780670025961

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved A Field Guide for Getting Lost

In this exquisitely written new 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.

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Recensione:

"In her famously lyrical prose, Solnit writes about her own life, her family, and her reading, and she revisits the myths and ideas from art and history that have shaped her world."
--The New Yorker

"What Solnit offers us, I think, is the future of memoir. Not the story of the self . . . but the ways in which one's story opens into other stories . . . literary nonfiction doesn't get more beautiful and compelling."
--The American Scholar

"A beautiful and profound book of essayistic reflection on memory, family, grief, travel, and storytelling."
--The Millions

"The product of a remarkable mind at work, one able to weave a magnificent number of threads into a single story, demonstrating how all our stroies are interconnected."
--Bookforum  

"[A] brilliant, genre-refuting book. The power of The Faraway Nearby, as in Solnit's previous writing, lies in its juxtaposition, its clusters of narrative nerves. . . . Solnit is a wanderer who collapses distance."
--San Francisco Chronicle  

L'autore:

Rebecca Solnit is the author of twelve books, including A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mark Lynton History Prize, and Wanderlust. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, she lives in San Francisco.


Rebecca Solnit is the author of twelve books, including A Paradise Built in Hell,A Field Guide to Getting Lost, River of Shadows, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Mark Lynton History Prize, andWanderlust. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, she lives in San Francisco.

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0670025968
• ISBN 13: 9780670025961
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 259