Drinking the Rain - Hardcover

Shulman, Alix Kates

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747519986 ISBN 13: 9780747519980

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1995

Synopsis

This memoir is by the author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen." It recounts how Shulman, aged 50, left an urban life to move alone to an island off the Maine coast. Living in meditative solitude, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, and mainly eating the wild greens she found growing around her and the shellfish she caught between the tides, she overcame her fears and discovered a capacity for feeling, thought and sensual delight. Over the course of a decade of island summers she became aware of the nuclear and ecological disasters penetrating every corner of the world, including her isolated island. By living in a consciously and spiritually disciplined low-tech way, she found herself able once more to take her place in the world of activism and committment.

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"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 Francicso Sunday Examiner & Chronicle"
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 Francicso Sunday Examiner & Chronicle""

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 & Chronicle"

The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society. "THE NEW YORK TIMES"

A thoughtful, lyrical memoir . . . The reader, even the most citified, is carried along as Shulman lives each day. "CHICAGO TRIBUNE"

Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that . . . every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery. "THE TORONTO STAR"

Shulman's descriptions of nature are luminous, leaping from page to mind with the strength of simplicity. But it is her descriptions of the changing seasons within herself that raise the memoir to the level of numinous. "AUSTIN CHRONICLE"

Add Alix Kates Shulman to the list of national treasuers. "BELLES LETTRES""

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 & Chronicle

The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society. THE NEW YORK TIMES

A thoughtful, lyrical memoir . . . The reader, even the most citified, is carried along as Shulman lives each day. CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that . . . every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery. THE TORONTO STAR

Shulman's descriptions of nature are luminous, leaping from page to mind with the strength of simplicity. But it is her descriptions of the changing seasons within herself that raise the memoir to the level of numinous. AUSTIN CHRONICLE

Add Alix Kates Shulman to the list of national treasuers. BELLES LETTRES

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"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 & Chronicle

The voice that has for three decades provided a lyrical narrative of the changing position of women in American society. --THE NEW YORK TIMES

A thoughtful, lyrical memoir . . . The reader, even the most citified, is carried along as Shulman lives each day. --CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Shulman writes with such crisp clarity, skeptical wit, unegotistical honesty and ravishing sensual beauty that . . . every page thrilled me with a sense of amazed kinship and fresh discovery. --THE TORONTO STAR

Shulman's descriptions of nature are luminous, leaping from page to mind with the strength of simplicity. But it is her descriptions of the changing seasons within herself that raise the memoir to the level of numinous. --AUSTIN CHRONICLE

Add Alix Kates Shulman to the list of national treasuers. --BELLES LETTRES

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0747519986
• ISBN 13: 9780747519980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242