Faraway Nearby

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ISBN: 9780670025961

ISBN-10: 0670025968

ISBN-13: 9780670025961

Edition: 2013

Authors: Rebecca Solnit

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This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her belovedA Field Guide for Getting LostIn this exquisitely written new book by the author ofA 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…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836

Rebecca Solnit writes extensively on photography and landscape. She is a contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera and is the author of three books. She has contributed essays to several museum catalogues including Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach and the Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America. She was a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.




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