Fifty days of solitude

114 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 1994 by Beacon Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8070-7060-4
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Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Grumbach, Doris -- Homes and haunts -- Maine
  • Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
  • Solitude
  • Maine -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
  • Maine -- Social life and customs