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OverviewWho gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and insightful commentators today, Solnit appraises the voices that are emerging, why they matter and the obstacles they face in making themselves heard. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rebecca Solnit (Y)Publisher: Granta Books Imprint: Granta Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.256kg ISBN: 9781783785438ISBN 10: 1783785438 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 05 September 2019 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit's writing is a forceful corrective...a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age * Observer * Whose Story Is This? is more hopeful in tone than her previous collections . . . It has a momentum, gained both from her conviction that the future is brighter than ""the dank world I was born into"" (she was born in 1961) and from the form itself, the essays building to a whole...oratorical, funny, biting * Financial Times * Ever-marvellous * Bookseller * Solnit speaks such considered, quotable sense, it is tempting to see her as an early victor in our ugly culture wars, here producing a first draft of a new sort of history... brilliant * New Statesman * The spirit of Solnit's book lies in sharing, in slinking away from the centre to take your place among the many * TLS * In recent years the essay has been revitalised as a form by a new generation of women whose writing gives urgent voice to the old adage that the personal is political. . . The pre-eminent voice among them is Rebecca Solnit * Observer * "In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit's writing is a forceful corrective...a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age * Observer * Whose Story Is This? is more hopeful in tone than her previous collections . . . It has a momentum, gained both from her conviction that the future is brighter than ""the dank world I was born into"" (she was born in 1961) and from the form itself, the essays building to a whole...oratorical, funny, biting * Financial Times * Ever-marvellous * Bookseller * Solnit speaks such considered, quotable sense, it is tempting to see her as an early victor in our ugly culture wars, here producing a first draft of a new sort of history... brilliant * New Statesman * The spirit of Solnit's book lies in sharing, in slinking away from the centre to take your place among the many * TLS * In recent years the essay has been revitalised as a form by a new generation of women whose writing gives urgent voice to the old adage that the personal is political. . . The pre-eminent voice among them is Rebecca Solnit * Observer *" Author InformationRebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Hope in the Dark, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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