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Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Reference
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Biography
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Biography
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me; an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Reference
From the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Philosophy
A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-f ...Show more
Standing at the Edge by Joan Halifax; Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
"Joan Halifax is a clearheaded and fearless traveler and in this book...she offers us a map of how to travel courageously and fruitfully, for our own benefit and the benefit of all beings." --From the foreword by Rebecca Solnit Standing at the Edge is an evocative examination of how we can respond to s ...Show more
Standing on the Edge by Joan Halifax; Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." -- Arianna H ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
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 l ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Biography
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 l ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Reference
From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Sol ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Non-Fiction
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more