Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and the quest for home

and the quest for home

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As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often about spiritual topics for a skeptical audience

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and such legendary figures as Edmund Hillary

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and the quest for homeGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected and illuminated the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge in short, to think as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent." Facing Unpleasant Facts charts