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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Bookseller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer) (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: kb173.269
Title: THE FARAWAY NEARBY
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - nrFine
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
ISBN 10: 1847085121
ISBN 13: 9781847085122
Publisher: Granta
Place of Publication: GB
Date Published: 2014

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