商品简介 "Sometimes the key arrives long before the lock. Sometimes a story falls in your lap. Once about a hundred pounds of apricots fell into mine." So begins Rebecca Solnit's exquisitely written new book about the forces that connect us and the ways we tell our stories. What she made of the apricots, of her mother losing her memory, of an invitation to Iceland, and an illness are the raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as Solnit spirals out into the stories she heard and read that helped her navigate her difficult passage. She takes us into the lives of others -- an Arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy-afflicted, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth, a blues musician who cures himself of drinking by the stories he tells himself to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, distance and empathy, making art and making self. A marvelous Russian doll of a book in which stories contain stories and chapters mirror themselves, and with a narrative as rich as the fairy tales it explores, The Faraway Nearby is lush with incident and surprise, a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
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