A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today
Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.
What has always impressed me in Solnit's writing is the simple
cadence and timbre of a sentence, a paragraph, the way a whole
essay lilts and skips. She is not one of the most important female
essayists of her generation. She is one of the most important
essayists of her generation. Incendiary, indignant, and true
*Scotland on Sunday*
[A] trenchant collection of essays... an eloquent reminder that we
still have some way to go when it comes to speaking of the issues
Solnit raises
*Financial Times*
Stark and powerful prose... Solnit is a compelling writer with a
glorious turn of phrase
*Evening Standard*
[These essays] are the thin edge of a continuum that reaches from
the opening anecdote to the rape and murder statistics that she
deploys to such devastating effect. Solnit's book does what the
best feminist writing does: it makes me angry. And it makes me
believe we can, and we must, fight for change
*Caroline Criado-Perez, feminist activist*
Exceptional... The feminist debate has once again exploded into the
mainstream over the last few years, and this collection marks
Solnit out as among the most thoughtful of many energetic writers
leading it
*Prospect*
Essays on feminism from the consistently wonderful author of The
Faraway Nearby. Anything she writes is a must-read
*Bookseller*
Solnit is a brilliant essayist... A highly enjoyable and
thought-provoking read
*Bookseller*
A necessary read... Solnit writes powerfully
*Flavourwire*
Essential reading for anyone - feminist or not, male or female -
who wants to fight for equality across all fronts
*Gazette, Western Mail, Swindon Advertiser and Leicester
Mercury*
The essays fiercely confront crime against women... Solnit has a
voice of fearless and provocative asperity; she launches a
quiverful of aphoristic arrows
*Independent*
A revolt championing the cause of women... [Solnit's] work feels
both timeless and timely. She argues persuasively, is often funny
and is articulate to a fault... [her] writing is its own victory
and revolt. An incendiary, inquiring and important work
*Irish Times*
Essential reading for anyone - feminist or not, male or female
*Irish Examiner*
The most clarifying, soothing and socially aware document I've read
on the topic this year. Not to mention funny
*Wall Street Journal*
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