Author: Solnit, Rebecca

Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers

Color: White

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Format: roughcut

Number Of Pages: 272

Release Date: 29-04-2014

Part Number: part_0143125494

Details: From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy—a fitting companion to Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this exquisitely written 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.

EAN: 9780143125495

Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English