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Rebecca solnit opens the faraway nearby with 100 pounds of apricot, collected from her ailing mother's tree, ripening and rotting on solnit's floor. Solnit is an original thinker and her creative use of words and phrases is sheer alchemy. I call her r...  Read More

Author successfully weaves the story of frankenstein and the history of his creator into a meaningful, and even necessary, part of her own discourse. She makes the world amazing and artistic and portrays the depths of distance in a way you may have ne...  Read More

The author weaves an intimate narrative about personal trauma and family relationships in such a way that we see the beauty amid the chaos, the poetry in the pain. This book records the sadness of her mother disappearing into senility. The joyfulness ...  Read More

Solnit takes on an idiosyncratic journey through disintegration and hints of rebirth. She brings the elemental definition of words to the work. Solnit also speaks of the ways in which our interior dialogues can trap us.

Solnit weaves in a whole cavalcade of stories, about:- boxes of apricots and canning;- her experience in iceland as a resident writer;- the lives and work of other storytellers or writers. The author tells us stories of real people with mythological c...  Read More

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She shows great empathy for her mother if not love which happens to be a quality that solnit holds most sacred for a storytelle...  Read More


Working through mother daughter relationships that navigate hard times and dementia is just one of several powerful opportuniti...  Read More


“listen you are not yourself you are crowds of others you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made you have spent vast amounts of...  Read More


Using that clue illuminates her apparent working method theres been a patient melding with brief transitions for topic shifts

Competitiveness


This book was billed in advance as similar to solnits book a field guide to getting lost but that is misleading


Along the way solnit goes to the 34country where many go much further and some dont return

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    own, through, nearby and faraway.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 470 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 21 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Solnit takes on an idiosyncratic journey through disintegration and hints of rebirth


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I was immediately brought into the quirkiness of her style when i started reading the passage that runs in a single line along the bottom of the pages


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I sent it on to my niece who is going to iceland also


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The feeling when you read a book that this person you have never met gets you


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In the faraway nearby there is ticker of sorts at the bottom margin of the book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    By doug dorst a book that had multiple layers of text multiple layers of postmodern frosting


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its fitting considering that solnit writes 34the sentence can run away with you

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