Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby ($25.95) is a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award-winning author Rebecca Solnit. In this exquisitely written new book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, 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.

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.

 

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ISBN: 9780670025961
Published: Viking Books - June 13th, 2013