Strangers Drowning
Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity
$38.60
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2016
Summary
Renowned New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar’s acclaimed account of the individuals who devote themselves to the lives of strangers.
There are those of us who help and those who live to help. In Strangers Drowning, celebrated journalist Larissa MacFarquhar digs deep into the psychological roots and existential dilemmas motivating those rare individuals practising lives of extreme ethical commitment. The donor who offers up her kidney to a complete stranger; the activist…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846143991 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846143993 |
| Author: | Larissa MacFarquhar |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 131mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Chilling and utterly absorbing… Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book’s treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives
Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in it – Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Chilling and utterly absorbing… Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book’s treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives – Frances Wilson * Daily Telegraph *
Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person not as an abstract idea, or even a value, but as a direction for life… Impressive * Financial Times *
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 *
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.
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