The Faraway Nearby

by Rebecca Solnit

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670025968
• ISBN13: 9780670025961
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher