Drinking the Rain (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series) - Hardcover

Shulman, Alix Kates

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786205431 ISBN 13: 9780786205431

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1995

Synopsis

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 Maine coast. On a windswept beach, in a cabin with no plumbing, power, or telephone, she found to her astonishment that she was learning to live all over again, discovering capacities for thought, feeling, and sensual delight that she had never imagined before. Her transforming summer experiences were only the beginning, though. In this luminous, spirited book, she charts her subsequent path - as she learned to celebrate the joys of meditative solitude, and to integrate her new awareness into a busy, committed, even hectic mainland life.

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Review:

"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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786205431
• ISBN 13: 9780786205431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 347