Storming the Gates of Paradise
Landscapes for Politics
Amongst the best American writers, Rebecca Solnit leads the 'don't mourn, organize' school. In the toxic deserts and suburban badlands of the West, she still finds seeds of paradise and futures redeemable by struggle. Neither lovesongs nor dirges, these remarkable essays are a genre of their own: imagine the intellectual acuity of Susan Sontag alloyed with the holy roar of Walt Whitman.-Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsSolnit's is an indispensable voice, and Storming the Gates of Paradise is the perfect introduction to her work.-Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma Rebecca Solnit, like some of the places she writes about here,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-25656-9
- EAN: 9780520256569
- Produktnummer: 16332771
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 436 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.5 cm 538 g
- Abbildungen: 10 b-w photographs
- Gewicht: 538
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Rebecca Solnit is the best-selling author of ten books - among them Wanderlust, Savage Dreams, and Hollow City - and countless articles, for which she has received numerous awards and accolades. In 2003 she won the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. Also in 2003 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for River of Shadows.
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