Where the World Was

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Publication Year:
2023

ISBN-13: 9781773102825

<p><b>&#8220;As a poet and writer, [Rosemary Sullivan] knows that life is lived not as theory but as practice, that . . . you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories.&#8221; &#8212; Margaret Atwood </b></p><p>Incomparable writer, activist, and world traveller Rosemary Sullivan has at long last written a book about herself, about her life quest to &#8220;meet the world, to celebrate its richness, to face its darkness.&#8221; </p><p>And what a fascinating book it is! Comprised of 21 essays spanning 5 decades and multiple continents, <i>Where the World Was</i> offers a vivid portrait of a writer who is instinctively drawn to other cultures and places. </p><p>Whether writing about a solo vacation inside the Iron Curtain, meeting the reclusive writer Elizabeth Smart in a dilapidated cottage in the English countryside, reflecting on how Chilean society responded to Pinochet&#8217;s coup, or tracking down the people who knew Svetlana Alliluyeva for <i>Stalin&#8217;s Daughter</i>, Sullivan delivers a master class in cultural studies, human rights advocacy, and empathy for the human condition. </p>