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24%OFFRebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark - 9781782119074 - V9781782119074
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Hope in the Dark

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Description for Hope in the Dark Paperback. This updated edition confirms Solnit's seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change Series: Canons. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; HBTB; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 134.
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Canons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782119074
SKU
V9781782119074
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Ref
99-98

About Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. 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.

Reviews for Hope in the Dark
A short, elegant, passionate polemic on the history and future of progressive political engagement
Robert Macfarlane Time and again Solnit comes running towards you with a bunch of hopes she has found and picked in the undergrowth of the times we are living in. And you remember that hope is not a guarantee for tomorrow but a detonator of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Hope in the Dark


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