Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
Alix Kates Shulman
At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman 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.
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- Macmillan + ORM
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN-13
- 9781466802896
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Solitude and self-discoveryFeminismSimple living
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(1995)
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