The faraway nearby

Rebecca Solnit First published 2013

About this book

A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.

Subjects

  • 814/.54 b
  • american essays
  • american literature
  • authors, biography
  • authorship
  • autobiography
  • autobiography--authorship
  • english & college success -> english -> biography & autobiography
  • literary
  • narration (rhetoric)
  • narration (rhetoric)--psychological aspects
  • new york times reviewed
  • personal memoirs
  • ps3569.o585 z46 2013
  • psychological aspects
  • solnit, rebecca
  • storytelling
  • women