Drinking the Rain

Beschreibung

A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><BR>"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

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