PositiveProspect (UK)At times the book ranges so widely it gives the impression its author has Googled \'roses, art, politics,\' but Solnit’s prose is always engagingly impassioned as she presents illuminating takes on beauty, nature, culture and happiness ... she debunks tired symbols and clichés: here English roses and the \'Orwellian\' are perfect targets for her searching mind. In challenging the conventional notion of Orwell as a gloomy figure always fighting for a cause, Solnit unearths fresh meanings in his most famous novels as well as in his less well-known pieces of journalism.
