Drinking the rain
by Alix Kates Shulman
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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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Biography, American Authors, Solitude, Homes and haunts, Islands, Women, Social life and customs, American Women authors, Homes, Manners and customs, Maine, biography, Women authors, Literary landmarks, Large type booksPeople
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Drinking the Rain: A Memoir
July 5, 2004, North Point Press
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in English
0865476977 9780865476974
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Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
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"THE tide is low, leaving a swath of damp, hard-packed sand as good as a dirt road for rolling my shopping cart along."
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