"On balance, though, this newest book is riveting, and one finally esteems its author for her privileging of complexity over and against tidiness. For her enormous ambition. For the ways her intellect matches her enormous ambition. For her language. And for the distances she travels in pursuit of wisdom and of questions big enough that they can only be answered with our lives. Rebecca Solnit remains one of our finest nonfiction writers. As with her work generally, The Faraway Nearby is an important text for those who wish to think deeply about the act of becoming, on an individual and a collective scale. It is a text that reminds us we are each storytellers, each stories, whether we often recognize that fact or not. It’s a book detailing an odyssey that doesn’t end at the exit, but carries through, into a world still fashioned by human creativity and volition. A world much larger than we remembered."
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:12:30 +0000
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