A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Author(s): Rebecca Solnit

Cultural Studies

"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben
The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy.
hat joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life.
It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

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Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including "Hope in the Dark," "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West," "Wanderlust: A History of Walking," and "As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art," which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.

General Fields

  • : 9780143118077
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : 0.304
  • : June 2010
  • : 215mm X 165mm X 20mm
  • : November 2020
  • : books

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  • : 353
  • : Paperback
  • : Rebecca Solnit