PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Hope in the Dark, Wanderlust, The Faraway Nearby, and Men Explain Things to Me.An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.
Wonderful * * The Times * * Brilliant . . . Go on. Start walking. Get lost. Who knows what you'll find * * Guardian * * Rebecca Solnit is unquestionably one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Possessed of eloquence and erudition in equal measure, her books have a wonderful capacity to lead the reader on unexpected and intriguing journeys . . . As with Solnit's previous books, there is an emotional, even a polemical dimension to these ideas. It is a rare writer who can write so excitingly with both heart and head * * Scotsman * * Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies * * Harper's Magazine * * The book itself is a kind of wandering, and it is hard to say where we get to, but there are good things along the way. * * Sunday Times * * Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned and serious -- Alain de Botton Fascinating, inspiring and beautifully written -- George Monbiot Flawless scintillating prose, writing it is impossible not to admire * * Financial Times * *
