The Faraway Nearby
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart. As she looks back on the year of apricots and emergencies, Solnit weaves her own story into fairytales and the lives of others - the Marquis de Sade, Mary Shelley and Erne…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84708-512-2
- EAN: 9781847085122
- Produktnummer: 15630637
- Verlag: Granta Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 259 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.5 cm 192 g
- Gewicht: 192
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REBECCA SOLNIT is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
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