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Strangers Drowning
Larissa Macfarquhar
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Description for Strangers Drowning
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment, and tells their intimate stories: their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: if they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of ... Read more
SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment, and tells their intimate stories: their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: if they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846143991
SKU
9781846143991
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About Larissa Macfarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky, among many others. Before joining the magazine, she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. She lives in New York.
Reviews for Strangers Drowning
A brilliant and rigorous thinker... As a book on altruism, this is also a book that invites us to think about selfishness - she's good on Adam Smith and Darwin, among many others
Evening Standard
Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person ... Read more
Evening Standard
Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person ... Read more