{"product_id":"the-faraway-nearby-paperback","title":"The Faraway Nearby - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of \u003ci\u003eOrwell's Roses \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but \u003ci\u003eThe Faraway Nearby \u003c\/i\u003egoes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read--from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e--that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others--an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth--to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism, including three atlases, of San Francisco in 2010, New Orleans in 2013, and New York in 2016;\u003ci\u003e Men Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West \u003c\/i\u003e(for which she received a Guggenheim, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). She is a columnist at \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753761210656,"sku":"9780143125495","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cd5acf8b5405e717ea1e1b3077f2178d.webp?v=1780026966","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-faraway-nearby-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}