Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change
Andrew Solomon
Apr 2016 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Andrew Solomon
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From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures come alive in this extraordinary collection.
Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political upheaval, cultural transformation, and social change. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter.
A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political upheaval, cultural transformation, and social change. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter.
A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Travel narrative and global cultures come alive in...
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Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and named one of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century; The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change; A Stone Boat; and The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. A former president of PEN America, Solomon is an activist in LGBTQ+ rights, mental health, and the arts, and his TED talks have been viewed more than twenty-seven million times. He lives in New York and London. For more information, visit the author’s website at AndrewSolomon.com.
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts and a professor of clinical medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the author of Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Cr...
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