Whose Story Is This?
Old Conflicts, New Chapters
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:5th Sep '19
Should be back in stock very soon
Powerful, incisive, inspiring, a fourth essay collection from the bestselling author of the iconic Men Explain Things To Me.
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and insightful commentators today, Solnit appraises the voices that are emerging, why they matter and the obstacles they face in making themselves heard.
In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit's writing is a forceful corrective...a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age * Observer *
Whose Story Is This? is more hopeful in tone than her previous collections . . . It has a momentum, gained both from her conviction that the future is brighter than "the dank world I was born into" (she was born in 1961) and from the form itself, the essays building to a whole...oratorical, funny, biting * Financial Times *
Ever-marvellous * Bookseller *
Solnit speaks such considered, quotable sense, it is tempting to see her as an early victor in our ugly culture wars, here producing a first draft of a new sort of history... brilliant * New Statesman *
The spirit of Solnit's book lies in sharing, in slinking away from the centre to take your place among the many * TLS *
In recent years the essay has been revitalised as a form by a new generation of women whose writing gives urgent voice to the old adage that the personal is political. . . The pre-eminent voice among them is Rebecca Solnit * Observer *
ISBN: 9781783785438
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm
Weight: 256g
192 pages