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Author Solomon, Andrew, 1963- author.

Title Far and away : reporting from the brink of change : seven continents, twenty-five years / Andrew Solomon.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2016.

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Nonfiction  303.4 SOL    CHECK SHELVES
 Esparto Adult Nonfiction  303.4 SOL    CHECK SHELVES
 Winters Adult Nonfiction  303.4 SOL    CHECK SHELVES
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xii, 578 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Content type text rdacontent
Format volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-554) and index.
Summary Psychologist, lecturer and activist Andrew Solomon's essays about places undergoing seismic political and cultural shifts, around the globe and across a generation. A testament to the importance of travel and bearing witness, they encompass South Africa and Brazil, China and Romania, Guatemala and the Solomon Islands, exploring history as it unfolds, largely through the people who are creating and being shaped by it. He learns from former political prisoners, transgender bartenders, rape victims, and shamans. He describes staring down tanks on the barricades in Moscow during the putsch that ended the Soviet Union, being left adrift at the Great Barrier Reef and brought in for questioning in Qaddafi's Libya, and carousing all night in Kabul with musicians finally able to play again after the US invasion drove away the Taliban. Far and Away chronicles a life's journey to the nexus of hope, courage, and the uncertainty of lived experience, while illuminating the development of Solomon's singularly insightful and empathetic worldview. These essays are rooted in intimate, deeply moving stories that reveal and revel in our common humanity.--Adapted from dust jacket.
Subject Social change.
Social movements.
Spine Title Far & away
ISBN 9781476795041