{"product_id":"far-and-away-how-travel-can-change-the-world-paperback","title":"Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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).Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic shifts--political, cultural, and spiritual. 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Solomon is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, president of PEN American Center, and a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. A lecturer and activist, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eFar and Away: Essays from the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years\u003c\/i\u003e; the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has won thirty additional national awards\u003ci\u003e;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon; An Atlas of Depression, which\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has been published in twenty-four languages. He has also written a novel, \u003ci\u003eA Stone Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eFirst Fiction Award and \u003ci\u003eThe Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost\u003c\/i\u003e. His TED talks have been viewed over ten million times. He lives in New York and London and is a dual national. For more information, visit the author's website at AndrewSolomon.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52069435670829,"sku":"9781476795058","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/far-and-away-how-travel-can-change-the-world-paperback-1528971.webp?v=1780166407","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/far-and-away-how-travel-can-change-the-world-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}