
The Faraway Nearby
#2465 of 3,809 books · #892 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2013).
The Faraway Nearby was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—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.
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- Penguin
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- 9781101622773
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Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2013)
Other awarded books from Rebecca Solnit
- Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (2018)1 win · 8 score
- River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2004)1 win · 8 score
- Orwell’s Roses (2021)0 wins · 7 score
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