Description
A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author
At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found that she was learning to live all over again. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path as she learned not simply the joys of meditative solitude, but to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life. "A ten-year voyage of discovery . . . Shulman's honesty and sense of inquiry carry us with her all the way--could even, if we were willing, change our lives." --San Francisco Sunday Examiner & ChronicleAuthor: Alix Kates Shulman
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 07/05/2004
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780865476974
ISBN10: 0865476977
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Nature | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Alix Kates Shulman is the author of more than a dozen books, including Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and other novels, memoirs, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, and children's books. She divides her time between New York City and Maine.