Facing Unpleasant Facts TC_Bestseller One of Daniel Pink's 13

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recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary—her brilliant wit

As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet

With black-and-white drawings throughout

Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery

Facing Unpleasant Facts TC_Bestseller One of Daniel Pink's 13George 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